Making a different page show up before the index

This is pretty simple. Sometimes it's nice to have your actual index page named "index", but you have a splash or intro page that you want to show up first. You can specify which page you want to come up using your .htaccess file.

Open up notepad and type this:



Obviously, you'll change pagename to the name of the page you want to show up first. Name that file .htaccess and upload it to your webspace in the root directory. Now when you go to your domain, the page you specified should show up. :)

i dont understand the upload it to your webspace in the root directory part....would u kindly explain to me please?

Yeah, just type in .htaccess, and notepad will actually add .txt as the extension. You'll need to take that off. It should actually be called ".htaccess", nothing else, nothing after.

O.o this doesn't work, or at least for me. x]

i'm guessing from that fact that you said to use notepad that you're supposed to save .htaaccess as a .txt file.

...?

Or use redirection scripts like these...1. Using javascript<script type="text/javascript">window.location="destination.html";</script>2. Using PHP<?phpheader("Location: destination.php");?>

Author	souperstition
Submitted on	May 1, 2006
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