Change default directory page

Most probably you have been wondering how the Webserver decides which page from your site to use as a main/default page of your site. There is a directive named DirectoryIndex which takes care of this.

On most web servers there is a pre-defined set of file names which server a start page.
The most commonly used are: index.html, default.html, index.php, index.asp, etc.

The good news is that you can set your custom file to be a start page of your site using .htaccess.

For example the following line set home-page.html as a main page of your site:
DirectoryIndex home-page.html
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