HELP cannot figure it out

[scooby3134]

hi guys and girls
my question is this
i have uploaded all the files to www.mydomain.com/shop and all is well but when i need to access the site i have to type in
www.mydomain.com/shop/index.php
same for my admin part i have to type in www.mydomain.com/admin/index.php

i wanted to install 1.5.3 which i tried and this is what i got so i thought ok there is a bug so i uninstalled 1.5.3 and installed 1.5.1 but still have to type in the index.php part for any thing to come up

i have 1.5.1 as my main website and is working well for many years
but i want this to go in to / shop folder so i can try new zencart out before going live
so i am stuck as to why i have to out in the index.php in the address bar ?
Thanks

[mc12345678]

hi guys and girls
my question is this
i have uploaded all the files to www.mydomain.com/shop and all is well but when i need to access the site i have to type in
www.mydomain.com/shop/index.php
same for my admin part i have to type in www.mydomain.com/admin/index.php

i wanted to install 1.5.3 which i tried and this is what i got so i thought ok there is a bug so i uninstalled 1.5.3 and installed 1.5.1 but still have to type in the index.php part for any thing to come up

i have 1.5.1 as my main website and is working well for many years
but i want this to go in to / shop folder so i can try new zencart out before going live
so i am stuck as to why i have to out in the index.php in the address bar ?
Thanks

What type of content is in your .htaccess at the root of your domain? There is a way to identify that the system should look for index.php and not just a index.html like page.

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

This will set the precedence of loading a page by the name of index.php ahead of trying to load a page called index.htm when trying to load the directory.