How do I change the home URL?

I am setting up zencart and need when a client presses a "Home" button it links to index.php on the root directory. The hosting company uses a priority of index.html and second index.php.

I want a client to see the index.html file when they enter my URL. The index.html file would say something like "Under Construction"

If I want to debug the program I would enter https://www.sitename.com/index.php

Since the hosting company links clients first to index.html clients will see the Under Constructions page.

Currently if I press a Home button in zencart it will link me to index.html not index.php

Welcome any thoughts****

Since the customer would have to know to type /index.php on the end of the URL to even find the HOME button, changing it would have little effect.

Like they say, "Locks are for honest folks."

You're unable to utilize "Down for Maintenance"?

This is just for testing the site where I dont want customers to find the site during this period. During testing when customers enter the URL, the server would automatically direct them to index.html

After the site debuged I will remove the file index.html.

Then once the site is developed I would remove the index.html file. Then when customers type in just the URL, the server will automatically direct them to index.php

The problem now is that zen cart uses index.html as the home url and I want it to use index.php

Thanks, what would you suggest.

down for maintenance

onejimb:

I am setting up zencart and need when a client presses a "Home" button it links to index.php on the root directory. The hosting company uses a priority of index.html and second index.php.

I want a client to see the index.html file when they enter my URL. The index.html file would say something like "Under Construction"

If I want to debug the program I would enter https://www.sitename.com/index.php

Since the hosting company links clients first to index.html clients will see the Under Constructions page.

Currently if I press a Home button in zencart it will link me to index.html not index.php

Welcome any thoughts****
hi.

you have to change the rewrite mode in .htaccess file, index.html to index.php.

Indy

http://www.webdesign-creative.com

Go into the site's admin section...

Select, under the Configuration menu, Website Maintenance.

Make your choices there. No need for any fiddling at the server level.

Thanks for your help.

Tyrell,
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I have the store set up in a sub-directory and would like the viewer to go back to the main site and not to the home page of the store. I read the above thread and it did not really make much sense. I was not able to find a "more Actions" button

Can anyone tell me where to change the URL of the Home Link

You can hard-code a link to yourwebiste.com from the nav in yourwebsite.com/shop BUT.....

Let's say the customer has picked out $375 of your product. However, just before adding that big ticket $975 item, they decide to take a look at the website's "home". If you don't have it set to open in a new window, their existing $375 cart will disappear.:ohmy:

Got to be careful not to lose that session id.:yes:

The "more actions" and all the other buttons mentioned are part of some unknown (to us) program that Tyrrell is using (maybe an SEO mod?), and have nothing to do with standard Zen Cart.