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[k9barry]

I have added the small calendar modification to my web's home page and it looks great so long as I use the extention (.shtml).  I changed the sites home page to index.shtml however when I point my browser to the site http://www.s88547033.onlinehome.us/  the calendar is missing.  When I point to the site http://www.s88547033.onlinehome.us/index.shtml  the calendar appears.

From reading the prior posts I learned the extention .shtml is required for the ssi call.  

How do I allow visitors to go to the site without having to type the full address of http://www.s88547033.onlinehome.us/index.shtml

(From a newbie at this -- Thanks)

[DanO]

** How do I allow visitors to go to the site without having to type the full address of http://www.s88547033.onlinehome.us/index.shtml  **

You must still have the original index.html file (or whatever) in the root directory of your site.

Most servers are set to first display an index.html if present. Next it would try to display an index.htm (if present). Not all servers are set up to use an index.shtml as the default but may be able to (ask your host's support).

If yours is, you will either need to remove the original .html or .htm files from the directory or have the order changed in which the server tries to load such files. Check with your host's support.

If your site is on an Apache server and you are allowed to use an .htaccess file, a single directive in it can set the order of which file names are used as the default page. Check with your host's support.

Dan O.

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[k9barry]

Thanks Dan for the help.  Your reply helped a newbie in training and worked perfectly!!!