How do I change the default index page in Apache

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I would like to change the default web page that shows up when I browse my site  I currently have a reporting program running  and it outputs a file called index html  I cannot change what it calls the file  Therefore  my landing page must be called something else  Right now  when I browse my site it takes me to the reporting page   From what I see  whatever you call index html it will pull that up as your default  I want to change that to landing html  How do I do this   I am a folder  Folding   Home   The reporting program is HFM net  HFM can output an html file with my current folding statistics  It names the html file index  I do not want that to be my default home page  I would like a menu-like landing where I can choose if I want to see my stats  or something else  The website is at  home tyler Documents hfm website  landing html and hfm s index html are here   Apache2 is in its default directory   I m also running Ubuntu 13 04

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You can also set DirectoryIndex in apache's httpd.conf file.

CentOS keeps this file in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf Debian: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Open the file in your text editor and find the line starting with DirectoryIndex

To load landing.html as a default (but index.html if that's not found) change this line to read:

DirectoryIndex  landing.html index.html

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I recommend using  htaccess  You only need to add   DirectoryIndex home php   or whatever page name you want to have for it   EDIT  basic htaccess tutorial   1  Create  htaccess file in the directory where you want to change the index file    no extension   in front  to ensure it is a  hidden  file   Enter the line above in there  There will likely be many  many other things you will add to this  AddTypes for webfonts   media files  caching for headers  gzip declaration for compression  etc    but that one line declares your new  home  page   2  Set server to allow reading of  htaccess files  may only be needed on your localhost  if your hosting servce defaults to allow it as most do   Assuming you have access  go to your server s enabled site location  I run a Debian server for development  and the default site setup is at  etc apache2 sites-available default for Debian   Ubuntu  Not sure what server you run  but just search for  sites-available  and go into the  default  document  In there you will see an entry for Directory  Modify it to look like this    lt Directory  var www  gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews     AllowOverride None     Order allow deny     allow from all  lt  Directory gt    Then restart your apache server  Again  not sure about your server  but the command on Debian   Ubuntu is   sudo service apache2 restart   Technically you only need to reload  but I restart just because I feel safer with a full refresh like that   Once that is done  your site should be reading from your  htaccess file  and you should have a new default home page  A side note  if you have a sub-directory that runs a site  like an admin section or something  and you want to have a different  home page  for that directory  you can just plop another  htaccess file in that sub-site s root and it will overwrite the declaration in the parent

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