how to redirect a directory to the index page

/ to index.html

[LisaWeber]

How do I redirect http://www.example.com/ws/ or http://www.example.com/ws to http://www.example.com/ws/index.html

I'll be advertising http://www.example.com/ws/ in the newspaper for brevity, but want it to redirect for continuity. thanks.

[milanmk]

Assuming you have Apache Web Server with the default configuration, all the directory request will be served by index.html.

If this is not the case you can make an .htaccess file in the root directory of your domain and add the following lines.

DirectoryIndex index.html

Options -Indexes

The second line will disable automatic directory listing.

Milan