Knowledgebase: Miva Merchant FAQ
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Setting the default home page
Posted by - NA -, Last modified by on 21 February 2007 08:02 PM
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======================================================== Setting the default home page to the Merchant storefront ======================================================== There are a number of ways of doing this. The first method is by using an index.php file in your default html or httpdocs directory. Create the file called index.php and place the following in it: header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header ( "Location: /Merchant2/merchant.mvc" ); ?> Assuming that your storefront home page is http://yourdomain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc. You can adjust the code as necessary to point to the correct page. A second method is to create a file in your html/ directory called ".htaccess" (Note the leading "."). The contents of the file should be, for sites with MM v4.14 or higher: DirectoryIndex index.html /Merchant2/merchant.mvc Assuming that your storefront home page is http://yourdomain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc Sites with MM v4.13 or lower would use: DirectoryIndex index.html /Merchant2/merchant.mv These files will tell the web server to first look for index.html, and if that's not present, then give the storefront instead. If you have trouble creating a file with the leading "." on your home computer, upload it as "htaccess" and use your FTP software to rename the file on the server to ".htaccess". The reason this is less preferable is because any request for a directory with no index will receive your Merchant storefront instead of a file not found error and that can have a negative impact on the server. ---- If you'd like to set a page other than your main index page to redirect, replace the html in the file with the following, where "somefile" is the page to redirect to: | |
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