Not Forwarding to index file

[almo136]

Hi,

When I type in the url for my site eg.

www.mysite.com

I get taken to an apache index page with a list of the sites folder directory. Why does it not automatically forward me to www.mysite.com/index.php?

This was working before so i don't know what has went wrong.

I tried changing the index page from index.php to index.html but this didn't help. The only way I can get to the page is by manually typing www.mysite.com/index.php

i even tried setting up a redirection but that didn't work either.

Does anyone know how to resolve this?

Thanks!

[eelixduppy]

In your apache configuration file httpd.conf you should be able to set the DirectoryIndex directive which will allow you to specify which files you want.

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[g1smd]

DirectoryIndex should fix it, but then you would be well advised to also add a redirect such that if the requested URL contains an index filename that you redirect to strip off that filename in the URL that the user sees.

[almo136]

perfect, thanks1