====== Changing the default index ======

The default index file looked for by Apache when a directory is requested is //index.php//, followed by other popular choices (//index.html// and others). You can change the default (first) index file searched so that, for example, index.html (like the Joyent default page) is served instead of index.php, by adding the following to a [[htaccess|.htaccess]] file in your [[document-root|document root]] directory for the virtual server in question:

<code>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</code>

The order of precedence is from left to right, so you can add other choices to the right of //index.html// (separated by space), so that other files will by tried if the first one is not available.