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[amenra]

How do you make the catalog index page the home page

[quetzlcoatl]

If you are referring to when a user types in "www.mysite.com" they should see your catalog home page, then paste this code into your www.mysite.com/index.html (or .php, whatever it is)

 

<script language="JavaScript"> 
<!-- 
 window.location.replace('http://www.mysite.com/catalog'); 
//--> 
</script>

 

This will redirect users to your catalog without trapping them.

 

Change mysite.com to your own web address.

[jpf]

The OTHER option if you want to load as www.mysite.com/index.php and not www.mysite.com/catalog/index.php then install as '/' and not '/catalog/'....Or MOVE everything from '/catalog/' to '/' or your web site root then CHANGE both configure.php file to match.

 

Good Luck

[Databuilder]

Is there any advantage to this:

 

<script language="JavaScript"> 
<!-- 
window.location.replace('http://www.mysite.com/catalog'); 
//--> 
</script>

 

over this:

 

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=http://www.mysite.com/catalog">

[quetzlcoatl]

Yes, the advatage is, if you use the Meta refresh, users will get trapped at your site. For instance, if they try to click "back" it will continue to try to reload the page, unless they click the back button really fast twice. Trapping users will make them very angry and unlikely to order from you.

 

The window replace will not trap users.

[quetzlcoatl]

One more thing, the window replace sometimes doesn't work if a user has their browser set to "high" security, but you still don't want to trap them.

[quetzlcoatl]

You can also redirect users in a .htaccess file, just put in the line

 

Redirect /home http://www.mysite.com/catalog/

 

where home is your root, the exact path depends on your host