Website Redirection

[Harker]

Hi Everyone

Im having a real problem with this one and i cant seem to work it out by myself. If theres anyone that can help me please reply or send me a email. Thanks

So heres the problem:-

when i type in my browser bar my site address www.siteaddress.net it comes up with a FTP folder view and i have to click on the file /forums to take me in to my forums. can someone talk me though on how to change it so when they type www.siteaddress.net it will take them into the forums directly www.siteaddress.net/forums

Someone please help. Cheers JAY

[jdMorgan]

Harker,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]!

Any of these should work:

A) Rename "forums" to index.html or index.htm (and change your links too).
B) Internally redirect from index.html and/or index.htm to forums
C) Use the DirectoryIndex directive, and specify "forums" as your directory index file.

Jim

[Harker]

Just the same thing happens.

[Harker]

Please help:-

do i have to create a new webpage with a intro and a link to the page.

Or is there a code i can put into the .htaccess file to make in go straight to the index page.

Thanks, JaY

[claus]

>> do i have to create a new webpage with a intro and a link to the page

I guess that "forums" is a folder and not a file. So it might be a good idea to make that webpage. Place it in the root folder (outside all the folders you see there) and call it

- "index.html" - if your server is linux/unix/apache
- "default.html" - if your server is iis/microsoft

Perhaps "htm" will also work, it does sometimes. Otherwise, you can do A,B, or C as suggested by jdMorgan above.

The reason you see all those folders is because you do not have an "index file" or "default file" - once you make it, you will see that one in stead.

/claus

[Harker]

So will i have to creat that page in Microsoft Frontpage thanks for all your help. hopefully i can get i fixed soon.

Cheers
JAY HARKER