Question

How do I accomplish so when you go to “http://mysite.com” the file I want to show as index is with in the URL. Ex:

• You surf to: http://mysite.com
• What shows up in the browser URL field is: http://mysite.com/my-choice.html

As it is now “my-choice.html” doesn’t show up. I have this in my .htaccess so far:

DirectoryIndex my-site.html

Answer 1

The DirectoryIndex directive only sets a list of files to try to resolve to when a request is for a directory. It won’t redirect the browser like what you want. Try this instead:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/$ /my-choice.html