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When someone visits a folder on your website, the web server will display a default document - e.g. index.html.

If a folder has more than one default document, the web server will usually display whichever is highest on its precdence list. The order in which the server chooses a default page is different depending on the server type you have.

Note: It's best practice to have just one file, in each directory, that has a default page name. This will ensure that page is displayed each time.

Windows 2003

• index.wml
• default.wml
• index.htm
• index.html
• default.html
• index.asp
• default.htm
• default.asp
• index.shtml
• index.stm
• default.shtml
• index.shtml
• index.ihtml
• default.ihtml
• _index.html

Windows 2003 with ASP

• default.asp
• index.asp
• default.aspx
• index.aspx
• default.htm
• index.htm
• default.html
• index.html
• default.wml
• index.wml
• default.shtml
• index.shtml
• default.stm
• index.stm
• default.ihtml
• index.ihtml
• default.php
• index.php
• _index.html

Linux

• default.html
• default.htm
• index.html
• index.htm
• index.shtml
• index.php
• index.php4
• index.php3
• index.phtml
• index.cgi
• _index.html

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