{"id":576,"date":"2019-11-27T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T12:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=576"},"modified":"2024-03-28T10:13:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:13:04","slug":"how-do-i-change-my-default-page","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/kb\/how-do-i-change-my-default-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the default page of your website"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">After you have linked your website to the hosting control panel and before you have uploaded a website for it, your domain name contains a standard page of Combell. If you do not want it to be shown, delete the index.html from your \/www\/ folder.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">When the visitor enters the address of a domain name via his browser, our hosting server searches your main folder and subfolders for one of the following files: index.html, index.htm and index.php &#8211; one of which is usually your homepage .<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-ht-blocks-messages wp-block-hb-message wp-block-hb-message--withicon is-style-info\">Note: depending on the software you used to create your website, the homepage may file called home.htm, default.htm or something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><strong>After you have uploaded your website, follow these steps in the <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/my.combell.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">control panel<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Go to \u201cMy products\u201d> \u201cWeb hosting\u201d> Click on the button \u201cManage hosting\u201d to the right of your domain name.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Select &#8220;Developer tools&#8221; in the menu on the left and then &#8220;Index and error pages&#8221;.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Here you see a list of the usual standard pages. At the bottom of the list you can add a new name. Enter the name of your homepage and click on \u201cAdd\u201d.<\/span><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-ht-blocks-messages wp-block-hb-message wp-block-hb-message--withicon is-style-info\">Tip: if you have more than one file that fits the name of a standard page, you must define a priority. With the control panel, it&#8217;s very simple &#8211; just click and drag, and you shouldn&#8217;t even save it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After you have linked your website to the hosting control panel and before you have uploaded a website for it, your domain name contains a standard page of Combell. If you do not want it to be shown, delete the index.html from your \/www\/ folder. When the visitor enters the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[4,46],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/576\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}