I'd like visitors to my web site to automatically be taken to the home page when they enter my domian name. For example, when they type in thedomainame.com the will automatically see thedomainame.com/homepage.

Is this done by using htaccess?

Can you someone explain this to me? How it works and how to set it up?

Or how do I change the home page name to be the index page?

Right now it's domainname.com/folder/index

thanks.

If your using PHP you could use this in your index page to redirect

PHP Code:

<?
    Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); 
    Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" ); 
?>

Or using .htaccess

Redirect 301 /index.php http://www.example.com/dir/

the only way i know of doing this is with a redirect implemented through control panel

One thread please.

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/html-f...-com-file.html