Help: Setting Default Index Page on XAMPP Web-Server - Need some Help!

Dear sir/madam,

 Thanks for the timely help. When I work in php with mysql, the index.Php has worked without modified any  configuration file.  But now I am working in Postgres  I could not able to start with the default index.Php with out typing in the address bar. When I give the index.Php in the address bar then only it shows the page otherwise it shows the directory list. So when I saw your comments on this, I follow the comments. Now it is working without typing the index.Php..

Thank you once again...

Bye bye take care...

 Regards,

Pk. PK 

I am in love with XAMPP Apache server, I don't like the Microsoft policies, long live freedom..

to let your index.Html work instead of the http://localhost/xampp/, simply go to the htdocs folder and delete the index.Php file

-reply by Abyooda

Hi Ashwini,

The index file/ home page will be stored in /Xampp/htdocs . It can be either a index.Php or index.Html. You can edit one and rename the other one so that you can view your home page by opening your browser and typing in http://localhost.

Feel free to ask questions here.

-reply by Udayakumar

For those that don't want to delete the index.Php file, there is a line when you open up that file that says: header('Location: '.$uri.'/xampp/'); 

You can change the '/xampp/' to '/index.Html' or whatever else you have happen to want the default webpage to open up as.  

Hi guys, I hope some one with more experience can help meOut with this frustrating problem.

I want to practice some PHP and infrastructure tests on thisDynamic website that I have access too, without ruining the website if I makeSome mistakes.

Ive installed XAMPP successfully, but now I have the problemOf getting it to run the website correctly.

I deleted the original index.Html and index.Php files thatWere in the xampp/htdocs area.

I than copied and pasted all of the files from my websiteInto this directory.

I just changed the,

1. Locate XAMPP install directory

2. Open php/php.Ini

3. Do a search for the word ‘curl’ and uncomment (remove theLeading semicolon) that line

4. Save & close

But there was no, php.Ini file in apache/bin/php.Ini so that was is unchanged.

Now when I go to,

https://localhost/mywebsitename.Com/

the home page works, but when I click on a link on my homePage it goes to the actual page online;

http://www.Mywebsitename.Com/subfile.Php

Some of the links from the home page go to

https://localhost/afileonmysite.Php

but than an "Object not found!" screen appears.

I have a feeling that my directory is not setup correctly.Maybe someone could guide me in the right direction

Thanks Will-

I had the same problem.  My local version redirecting to to /xampp when all I wanted was http://localhost.

First:  index.Php is designed to redirect to /xampp ( header('Location: '.$uri.'/xampp/'); )

I didn't want to mess with this file, if you do then replace the contents or delete the file and the redirect will go away...

I wanted to work on the index.Html, but because of the DirectoryIndex entry in httpd.Conf, it always opted for the index.Php, instead of the index.Html file, because index.Php was before index.Html in the file list.

When a directory request (e.G. http://localhost) is made to Apache it determines the file to respond with by looking at the list of files defined in DirectoryIndex in the order that they are listed.  So, I moved index.Html to the front of the DirectoryIndex list, so Apache "finds" it and responds with index.Html.

Of course, if I delete index.Html it will look for and find index.Php...

Of course, if I renamed index.Php to something not in DirectoryList it would solve the problem as well.