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Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:33 am**

Can I use an index.html page aside of the index.php?

Background: I am trying to set up a dynamic splash screen: see http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicinde ... splash.htm .

I am guessing that my mod_rewrite and .htaccess setup is making that difficult.

I've included my .htaccess below. Thoughts?

Tried "DirectoryIndex index.htm /index.php" but no luck.

Brian

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# BEGIN s9y
php_value memory_limit 16M 
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
DirectoryIndex /index.php
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
php_value register_globals off

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner.*$
RewriteRule ^feeds/.*$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/Strumpette [R=permanent,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner.*$ RewriteRule ^(index|atom|rss|b2rss|b2rdf).(rss|rdf|rss2|xml)$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/Strumpette [R=permanent,L]

RewriteRule ^(archives/([0-9]+)-[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-]+\.html) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA] RewriteRule ^(authors/([0-9]+)-[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-]+) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA] RewriteRule ^(feeds/categories/([0-9;]+)-[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-]+\.rss) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA] RewriteRule ^(feeds/authors/([0-9]+)-[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-]+\.rss) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA] RewriteRule ^(categories/([0-9;]+)-[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-]+) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA] RewriteRule ^archives([/A-Za-z0-9]+)\.html index.php?url=/archives/$1.html [NC,L,QSA] RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)[_\-][0-9a-z_\-]*\.html index.php?url=$1-article.html [L,NC,QSA] RewriteRule ^feeds/(.*) index.php?url=/feeds/$1 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^unsubscribe/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?url=/unsubscribe/$1/$2 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^approve/(.*)/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?url=approve/$1/$2/$3 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^delete/(.*)/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?url=delete/$1/$2/$3 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^(admin|entries)(/.+)? index.php?url=admin/ [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^archive/? index.php?url=/archive [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^(index|atom[0-9]*|rss|b2rss|b2rdf).(rss|rdf|rss2|xml) rss.php?file=$1&ext=$2 RewriteRule ^(plugin|plugin)/(.*) index.php?url=$1/$2 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^search/(.*) index.php?url=/search/$1 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^(serendipity\.css|serendipity_admin\.css) index.php?url=/$1 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^index\.(html?|php.+) index.php?url=index.html [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^htmlarea/(.*) htmlarea/$1 [L,QSA] RewriteRule (.*\.html?) index.php?url=/$1 [L,QSA]

<Files *.tpl.php>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.tpl>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.sql>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.inc.php>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.db>
    deny from all
</Files>

# END s9y

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:10 pm**

Hi!

If you used "index.htm" in your .htaccess, you sure saved your page as index.htm and not index.html, right?

Best regards,
Garvin

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:02 pm**

right.

index.htm does not work. immediately loads index.php.

BC

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:35 pm**

Hi!

Ah, now I see it. Because you're using mod_rewrite, s9y thinks that "index.htm" is a file of its own framework:

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RewriteRule ^index\.(html?|php.+) index.php?url=index.html
RewriteRule (.*\.html?) index.php?url=/$1 [L,QSA]

If you were using Apache Errorhandling, then the call to index.htm would succeed.

Thus, you would need to modify the mod_rewrite rules so that index.htm is accepted and not rewritten to index.php. I don't know how to do that, though.

What you could do is to rename your index.htm file to "index.xtml", and also define that in your variation of DirectoryIndex. You might also need to adapt your webserver to recognize ".xtml" as a valid Content-Type: text/html file, or try to specify that in the <meta> tag of the index.xtml file

Or you edit your .htaccess to add a rewrite condition to the two rewrite rules above to make sure that the request does not match your "index.html" call. I don't properly know how to do that, I would nead to research that, so you might need to ask for the proper rewritecondition on apache-specific forums or bribe someone to look it up for you

Best regards,
Garvin

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:49 pm**

I am totally confused.

This much I know: if Garvin can't do it, it probably can't be done or isn't worth doing.

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:57 pm**

Hi!

Read it again, it can be done, of that I'm sure

Maybe for you it's easier to set a staticpage as frontpage of your blog and paste your javascript into that staticpage frontpage, instead of doing it outside of s9y?

If you put the s9y into a subdirectory of your host, you could create a root splash page that wouldn't affect s9y's rewriting...

HTH,
Garvin

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:07 pm**

A little late in the game to move it now. Would that break like a gazillion links?

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:10 pm**

Hi!

bdconnolly wrote:A little late in the game to move it now. Would that break like a gazillion links?

I'm afraid so, yes. You could add forwarding rules, but that would then mean more work for the server.

But the other option still applies to try the index.xtml approach, or the RewriteCond way...

Regards,
Garvin

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:57 pm**

Perhaps more trouble than it's worth. But I would be game to explore either option.

Which is easiest? What would you have me do? And how much of you professional time might that require?

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