On Tue, 28 May 2002, Luis Miguel N. Tavora wrote: > Hi there. > > I've started to code in PHP a couple of days ago, so > I'm really a newbie. > > As far as I understood it, for a server process the php > code, the file must have the extension .php
Not really but it's a good convention. > But then, the apache server (for example) requires a file > index.html to be placed in the directory public_html/ ... > > Does that mean that I can't have any php in my main page? > > I've tried to overcome this by creating a symbolic link > > index.html--->index.php > > but didn't manage to "fool" the server, as it didn't > process the .php code! Find the following line in your Apache's httpd.conf: DirectoryIndex index.html and change it to: DirectoryIndex index.html index.php cheers, thalis -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
