I had a VSD designed page as my home page for my shop and it worked correctly, by going there when you first log in. I changed my mind and screwed up a few things so I deleted everything from my server for that site. I changed my mind again and made another VSD page for the home page. I have uploaded this page and the shop separately. (was this correct?) The home page is 'index.html', but when I open the site now it goes to my shop home page instead of the VSD homepage. I've changed settings etc., but can't seem to make it open where I want. If I put in marilynweil.com/index.html it opens where I want it to. I can't remember what changes I need to make.... Can anyone help? (getting old is no fun )

The problem is you uploaded your shop and website to the same folder. This means you then have an index.html and an index.php file in the same directory. A web server will always serve the index.php file first and if that is not there, it will serve the index.html page

What you need to do is move your shop to a shop folder and then you can upload your website back to the root folder of your server.

So what Scott is telling you to do is to alter the remote folder for your server settings in SCCP.

example
/public_html/shop/

That is not always the case. The sys admin can configure the web server to handle these files in the order of their choosing. I created an intro page for a gaming clan using PHP Nuke. It uses the index.html as the intro page that automatically lands on the index.php page after the flash movie has played.

Yes, they can do that. Most of the time on a shared hosting server, that cannot be done. You can also do that with htaccess if this cannot be handled at the server level.

Thanks Scott and Eric. Will give it a try.

I've only ever had one hosting account where that was the case. In all the others it has looked the for html page in preference to the php page. That's on both European and US servers, so Tom must be right that the system admin can configure the server to prioritise file types.

Many folks build and develop online shops on live web space and put a html holding page in there so the site is not picked up by search engines before it is finished.

I have seen the index preference in IIS when I toyed around with it. I remember removing default.html and default.htm from the list. I'm sure I can find it on my Apache server too.