How do you set your homepage with a different name?

[yongkeyu]

Please help, I am a noob and I can't find the answer anywhere else. How do you change/setup your homepage to something other than index.html???

 

[jechilt]

I am sure there is a way, but as a novice type of guy myself, I would just use a redirect. Simple and effective.

I would:
delete "index.html"
create a new file called "index.php"

Then, I would put the following lines in the index.php

<? header("Location: /file location/filename/"); /*Redirect to Filename*/

/* Make sure any code below does not get executed when redirected */
exit;
 ?>

That is it....works great and fast.