Comments on: Index.php vs. Shop.php

By: mcarp555

mcarp555 — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:22:46 +0000

Henk – That’s a possible option if your server has a “General Settings” feature. Cpanel for instance, does not.

By: Henk

Henk — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:26:33 +0000

A more elegant solution you can achieve in a few seconds:
Go to your control panel on the server and look for ‘General settings’.
Here is a list of which files the browser must first open on the server eg. index.htm, index.php, default.php etc.
Add shop.php and ready to go!

By: peacestone

peacestone — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:50:35 +0000

Awesome! Great info here. Saved me from losing my hair~Thanks!

By: LowCostNetbookGuy

LowCostNetbookGuy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:00:43 +0000

Salam n Hola

Excellent tip. Now I know why the View Store link is missing from many of my store admin page.

I’ve always thought the link was removed. Never queried about it as it was not very very important.

Now that you’ve highlighted the disadvantages of renaming shop.php, I think I will try out this .htaccess thing for all my aom sites.

Thanks..

By: Jim H.

Jim H. — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:01:28 +0000

I plan on looking at this in more detail. I did do some initial configuration (i.e. modifying .htaccess). That worked well. I’d also like when a visitor navigates back to the home page that it appears as the main URL without any extension. Currently home points to the URL with the shop.php extension. I am thinking I am missing a setting somewhere … Thanks!!

By: Rosana Hart

Rosana Hart — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:34:00 +0000

Worked like a charm, Mike. Had been trying to figure this out!

Took about 3 minutes to do.

Rosana