Static main page that doesn't call header, footer, etc, etc

Is there any way to use the override system so that my site can have a static main page which does not make use of the header, footer, or any template files for that matter??

I dont sure what do you want but

You can do two things:

1. overriding tpl_main_page.php and get ride from header and footer and another staff.

2. write a index.html html page and link to the catalog

Editing the call for the header and footer out tpl_main_page seems to affect the whole site, which is not suitable in this case.

The other method poses a complication, hopefully someone has a solution or another idea...if you create a static index.html, it seems most browsers will default to the index.php anyway, and you can't remove the index.php of course.

Hopefully someone out there has a solution for this one.

Simply create the htaccess that reads index.html first

Open notepad.
Type in :
DirectoryIndex index.html

Upload it to your root of your site as .htaccess and voila - index.html will always be the first page anyone sees.

Bingo. Many thanks.

Actually..doing that seems to have made index.php restricted, and I am getting the error:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server.

permissions are set to 644, just like the index.html

Any ideas?

Nevermind...that seems to have resolved itself.

My second part of this question is, how do I get the command index.php?main_page=index to point to index.html instead of index.php?