Default page.

[realestate]

What is the default URL for homepage of a website. Is it always index.html or index.php? Which one has a priority?
Site in my signature redirects or points to /home.php; but actually there is an identical /index.php. There are two copies of same page "site" and "site/home.php" in googles index.
I wonder if the first one is actually "site/index.php". I think we need to avoid index.php completely.

[Jazzee]

index.html will show before index.php.

[Rivux]

It depends entirely on the webserver, on some I have index.html to show up first, on others I have index.cfm or index.asp. This is something that can be set from cpanel if you have it, or you can ask the sysadmin to take a look at it. Though a good rule is to never have to files with the same filename, even if they have different extensions. So avoid index.asp and index.php within the same folder.

[Jazzee]

How can you tell what the default is for a server?