7 replies to this topic

[Sohgave]

Is it possible (and if so, how difficult) to update the OSC store default homepage from "index.php" to any other filename? Thanks in advance...
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[Web-Source 5]

open includes/filenames.php  

look for FILENAME_DEFAULT  

This is where you would change the name. You may also want to scan the catalog side of the site for "index.php" and change any occurrences to your new  file name, or better yet, replace with FILENAME_DEFAULT

[DunWeb]

@Sohgave

Use SEO URL's to make your site address search engine friendly.  The above post is the INCORRECT way to make changes to osCommerce.



Chris

[MrPhil]

If your server is configured to look for something other than index.php, it should be possible to change its search order. On Apache servers, you might be allowed to add a DirectoryIndex command in .htaccess to specify "index" files to search for. The default order is usually index.html, index.htm, and finally, index.php. It would be rather unusual for a server not to look for index.php at all, but if you have index.htm/html in the directory, you could specify that index.php come first in the search order.

If this for SEO purposes, it would be better (as indicated previously) to use a proper SEO modification. If this is for "security", what exactly is it supposed to accomplish? "Security through obscurity" doesn't work for long. As part of SEO, it is common to change the visible name to index.html (changed back internally to index.php so the code can run), to hide the technology used (and allow a site to change to something else in the future, e.g., ASPX).

[Sohgave]

Dear All,
Thank you for your suggests and insights. The nature of my question centered around creating a Facebook Fan app. Facebook requires your app to run on a secure server with the default page being a page name already dedicated to the OSC store experience. My Facebook store version will require a different skin (look and feel) but same data as the normal OSC store. My orininal plan was to copy/rename files pertinent for the Facebook experience. I ran into a corner when both the normal OSC store and the Facebook app setup required the same name for homepage.

I think my new plan is to actually create a clean OSC install dedicated for Facebook store. Sounds like this might be the best way to go versus all the other source code changes. I do have the SEO friendly page names on the board of todo's but that will need to be later. Thanks again for the feedback and if anyone sees issues with my direction, I'd appreciate hearing about their concerns.

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[spooks]

I would not change your default page to another, however there is no reason that the index page has to be what the default osC has, which is effectively a categories page i.e. that function can be moved to another page.

[Web-Source 5]

DunWeb, on 31 March 2012 - 05:26 PM, said:

@Sohgave

Use SEO URL's to make your site address search engine friendly.  The above post is the INCORRECT way to make changes to osCommerce.

Chris

I'm sorry, but the question pertained to how to change a file name. SEO work was an assumption that you made. The information I gave was absolutely CORRECT.

[vampirehunter]

spooks, on 31 March 2012 - 07:38 PM, said:

I would not change your default page to another, however there is no reason that the index page has to be what the default osC has, which is effectively a categories page i.e. that function can be moved to another page.

whats the procedure for moving the categories function out of the index.php file?