SEO 2020 FORUM

[businessguy]

In general, when I set up subdirectories the default page is the index page.

So mydomain.com/sub/ defaults to mydomain.com/sub/index.html

How do I get it to default to mydomain.com/sub/keyword-article.html

Thanks
Arnold

[Rick S.]

You probably don't want to mess with this, but you could go into your httpd.conf file and change the DirectoryIndex from index.html to keyword-index.html.

Not very useful if a) you don't have access to the httpd.conf file, and b) if you want to change the keyword in the default file name to different things for different subs.

You might be better off placing an ".htaccess" file in each of your subs and editing them such that they do a 300 redirect from index.html to keyword-index.html.

I think this is how the .htaccess file would look:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com/sub/index\.html [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://mydomain\.com/sub/keyword-index\.html [R=301,L]

</IfModule>

You'll probably have to mess around with that a bit to get it right ... I know I always have to look up how to deal with the .htaccess file when I do this sort of thing.

Hope this gets you in the right direction.

[businessguy]

Thanks Rick,

If .htaccess is the way to go then I will play around with it.

I found a .htaccess checker at http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php
Arnold

[businessguy]

Also I just learned that cpanel has a redirect feature built right into it.

So if the only way to make the directory landing page something other then the index page then the cpanet feature seems the easiest way to go.

Arnold