Changing the Default File

[Prafulla]

When a URL specifying only a directory is requested ...
eg.: http://www.domain.com/directory/

... Apache looks for file names by default (in the order they appear):

index.html
index.htm
home.html
welcome.html

The .htaccess directive "DirectoryIndex" can be used to override this behavior. In your .htaccess file, type the following line:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

In the above example Apache is forced to look for index.php first and look for index.html only if there is no index.php file present.

"DirectoryIndex" can be used to make any file you would like to appear as default. For instance, you could have:

DirectoryIndex firstpage.html first.html first.php

In the above example the web server would first look for firstpage.html, first.html, and first.php, returning a directory listing if none of those files were present in the directory.

[evantanski]

I have found in the past that this will default back to .docx files for no apparent reason. perhaps this has been fixed in a service pack as I have not seen the action in the last few weeks but it was bad earlier this year where it would default back to .docx and I would have to do these steps to have it default back to .doc.

[Ajay]

I have found in the past that this will default back to .docx files for no apparent reason. perhaps this has been fixed in a service pack as I have not seen the action in the last few weeks but it was bad earlier this year where it would default back to .docx and I would have to do these steps to have it default back to .doc.

Well evantanski, I surprised to see you replying to a more that 5 year old post, Don't you think that the technology has changes very much during this big gap?