By mrmatthewmason on

hi

ive installed my drupal site and its all finished,
but when i type my domain in the address bar it takes me to the drupal index page,
but i would like it to take me to my drupal homepage how to i do this.

thanks matt

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balajibala’s picture

balajibala commented

hai,

This is very simple.just go to admin side.

Go to site configuration/site information

Under the default front-page place the node value to which the home page should point.

Thats all

Make it a great day!

Thanks

Balaji

mrmatthewmason’s picture

mrmatthewmason commented

thank you how do i found out what the node value is ?
iam new to all this .

danny_joris’s picture

danny_joris commented

go to the page you want as front page. look at url. for example www.yourdrupalsite.com/node/5 . U use 'node/5' then.
Or an URL-alias if you use the Path module. I'd recommend using this.

mrmatthewmason’s picture

mrmatthewmason commented

my homepage url has no node value.

and i dont know how to make a url-alias ive enabled the path module.

please help

my homepage url is http://www.ukr.hostei.com/drupal-6.12/
but when i type www.ukr.hostei.com in address bar, to access the site.
it just goes to index of drupal-6.12/ and i have to click the link to enter the homepage.
how do i bypass the index page?

danny_joris’s picture

danny_joris commented

Oh ok, now i also see what your original question is about.
-You could move all your files in /drupal-6.12/ one map down. That would solve the problem. Next time when you copy drupal to the server, copy all the files in /drupal-6.12/ to the root instead of the map itself. I see that you have not gotten far yet in the devellopment of your site, so you could still do that. I recommend you do that by starting from scratch.

By the way: i would like to recommend this great beginner book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515805/

Ps: in your original question you mention 'the drupal index page'. Just want to say that http://www.ukr.hostei.com/drupal-6.12/ is your drupal index page at the moment. All Drupal works after this map in your case.

mrmatthewmason’s picture

mrmatthewmason commented

thank you danny for your time and your recommendation.