Hi

I have a hosting account with hostmonster which allows me to add a new domain to subdomain folder of the master account.

so in other words I could turn this: http://subdomain.domain.com

into this: http://domain.com

the problem that I'm having, is that after adding the domain to the subdomain directory, visiting the domain page displays a file directory instead of the webpage, in other words the index.html file does not display the webpage automatically, in order for me to display the webpage I have to literally input http://domain.com/index.html

How can i get the index.html to display its content when I just type http;//domain.com and not http://domain.com/index.html

can i do this through .htaccess and if so what is the code that i should use?

thank you

Should be doable by adding an .htaccess file in the directory which shows a mere list instead of what you want. In the .htaccess file, add the following:

DirectoryIndex index.html

That should set the default index to <specified name and extension>, regardless of being accessed via the 'shorthand' or not.

Thanks a million Gakoyu Ojima, that did the job, I hope that I can return the favor sometime.

hmmm...
Why did you do that?
Is there any specific reason, you wanted it in that way?