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Hi,

How does one set the homepage of a website with EE?

IE, http://www.mysite.com 

I tried this with site/index and clicked Make the index template in this group your site’s home page?but the website still shows the regular default homepage of website not the EE page.

Any ideas?? What am I missing here??

thanks!

Hi, josephvv.

Make sure you don’t have an index.htm or index.html file that may be coming up first.

.htaccess info

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml

is what you’re looking for.

Make sense?

Hi, thanks for your reply. I had this in the .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 ^(site|search|contact-us|weblog|static|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

I copied from a thread that was excluding the ‘index.php’ Something there that is causing it?

thanks!

j

It shouldn’t be.  If you access the new default template with the full url- mysite.com/new_home_template_group_name/index/- does it come up ok?  And does it still come up ok if you drop the index?  And what version/build are you running?  Plus- you didn’t specify anything in the path.php file for the default, did you?  (Unlikely, but possible.)

Hi, thanks

I can acess this

http://www.thinkmktg.com/site/index.php
http://www.thinkmktg.com/index.php

but I would like this http://www.thinkmktg.com to be set aas the default homepage on EE

Im on version ExpressionEngine v 1.6.0

Im not sure if I did specify anything like that in the path.php
Something isnt redirecting?

I really really appreciate your help on this !

thanks

Sorry, Im kinda frustrated in tryin to figure this one out. Anyone know why in the world mysite.com will not show the default EE page??? and I have to go to mysite/index.php to view the default page

thanks

Hi, Joseph - please do not bump so quickly, a few hours is a reasonable time for a response.

Make sure you don’t have something like “index.htm” or “index.html” in your directory.

So sorry, That was the exact problem, u nailed it! I had an index.htm file in the old directory.

thanks a mill!