Posted by Graham Cossey on 03/15/05 18:34

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:10:30 -0500, Phil Neeb <06prneeb@alma.edu> wrote:
> I've noticed that PHP.net uses index.php as its homepage and well, I'm
> curious as to how that's possible. Is it the server setup that allows
> them to load a php file as their homepage or something else?

Yes, it's normally the configuration of the web server. Apache, for
example, can be given a list of possible index pages such as :

DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.php

No doubt there are various other more complex methods as well.

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Graham

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