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Mar 23, 2018it is recommended to stick with either index.html or index.htm in most cases, default.html is generally used on a windows environment, i.e iis, so you may come unstuck if. Mar 1, 2014directoryindex index.php index.html index.htm save the file as .htaccess no file extension, just name it as .htaccess placing a dot (.) in front of it to ensure it is a hidden file. Apr 6, 2015quite often the default document can be named index.html, index.htm or -if php is installed- index.php, but they can be other names as well, depending on the configuration.

Jun 22, 2018there are enough valid reasons to explicitly disable automatic directory indexes in apache or other web servers. The technical term for index.html is directory index for apache and default document for iis. This should not be an issue since it’s unlikely that you’ll have both index.htm and.

Htdocs is your default document-root directory, so you have to use localhost/index.html to see that html file. In other words, localhost is mapped to xampp/htdocs, so index.html is at localhost. Jan 8, 2013 directoryindex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm meaning that the index document is searched in the order.