> Need to create new Home/Landing Page without renaming all index.htm links - HTML Forums

mhutter6 · 07-31-2009, 06:27 AM

I think there is a simple fix for this...but I can't think of it.

My client has an existing site (not very well designed and no templates) with hundreds of static pages. She wants me to create a new home (index.htm) page that is just a simple landing page where people can choose to enter her website OR visit the store to purchase products.

Simple enough...but, now all of the 100's of static pages have the link Home=index.htm on them. I want people to type in the URL: www.mysite.com (for example) and land on the new page to choose to go to the site to learn about her and her music OR go to the store to shop.

Once they are in the site, however, and hit the home link, I don't want them to go 'all the way back out' to the new landing page. I want them to go back to the 'old' index.htm page (or her current home page), without having to change the index.htm links on those 100's of pages.

Is there an easy fix for this, using a naming convention for the home page?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am a bit stumped on this one.

batterj2 · 07-31-2009, 08:19 AM

If your server is running Apache and you have access to the conf file you can add a new file called index.html, upload that and then edit the Apache conf file to accept index.html files before index.htm files.

Code:

#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php
</IfModule>

Mandarin · 07-31-2009, 02:40 PM

This is also why I never point my links directly at an index file. I just point them to the right website directory and let Apache serve up the default index page. My homepage links always look like:

HTML Code:

<a href="/">Home</a>
  - not -
<a href="/index.html">Home</a>

This creates cleaner-looking web addresses, allows the file structure to be manipulated more easily, allows for a future change in technology (like if your home page becomes index.php in the future), and saves a few bytes of bandwidth.