Hey guys, I just had a quick (newbie) question. Im building a website where I want the homepage to be a .php page (ie: www.website.php instead of www.website.com). The problem is that I dont know how to do this. Currently to tackle this problem I am simple redirecting my visitors to the .php page (ie: they get redirected from www.website.com to www.website.com/home.php).

This process seems a little to tacky and I'm looking for a cleaner solution. I would visitors to type in my website's name with the .com extension and be redirected to the .php extension. I dont know if this is possible but if anyone has a solution it would be appreciated. Cheers.

I don't believe that you can change a .com address to a .php file.

In the root directory, the domain will pull either default.html, index(.htm & .html & .php & .asp) etc. So if you want to fix the situation then simply rename "home.php" to index and eliminate all other variations.

Nearest you could get, would be to register a Philipine hostname (.ph) and use that for the website address.

Otherwise, what you are asking for is impossible.

Originally Posted by Douglife

In the root directory, the domain will pull either default.html, index(.htm & .html & .php & .asp) etc. So if you want to fix the situation then simply rename "home.php" to index and eliminate all other variations.

This is the right solution as the index page has not to be index.html it can be index.php and it will work fine.

What you're basically asking for is to register a ".php" domain name, which unfortunately as others have mentioned is an invalid domain. Perhaps it will be one day.

is it just me or is everyone missing what the OP is asking?? (I've had a couple of tinnies!! )

It seems to me they are getting confused between a TLD and a file extension?

just call the first page you would like users to see as index.php ??

Thanks Xela1966, you are right too Rolda. I answered the question above, and since the poster hasn't returned, I'm assuming the issue was fixed or it wasn't an issue to begin with.

just name the home page index.php, it wont show up in the URL bar and all you'd have was www.website.com

i read somewhere that some time in the future the .com, .co.uk etc system is going to be dropped and you can replace it with anything, i can't find the link where i read it, but it was on the bbc website so im sure it was kosher

You probably read this and misunderstood what it is about.

http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/