tiled thumbnail images as home page

[eburn]

Hi,
Can someone please advise if it is possible to make my pixelpost homepage instead of images_template style (single image) to browse_template style (tiled thumbnails)?
I tried renaming browse_template to image_template, but this gives empty page apart from header content. I also tried editing index.php file reference from image_template to browse_template. This gave same result as above.
I want to show all pictures taken as opening screen when people visit my homepage at year end (temporarily).
Thanks.

[jaywilliams]

The easiest way to do this, is to create an index.html file in the same folder where pixelpost is installed.

In the index.html file, add a META redirect to direct people to your browse page.
Like so:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://example.com/index.php?x=browse"/>


You can find out more on this site:
http://webdesign.about.com/od/metataglibraries/a/aa080300a.htm

[eburn]

Jay,

Thanks for your response. Note that I tried your suggestion, but it did not do the trick. Probably I misunderstood.

I created index.html file with (personal) redirect and placed this file also where my index.php file is located. I guess here is where things go wrong.

If I type my homepage http://eburn.nl then I get my normal screen. Only if I type http://eburn.nl/index.html redirect works, but I would like people to be redirected from my homepage, since they have this one.

How best to resolve this?

Ruben.

[Dennis]

Use .htaccess to redirect.

[jaywilliams]

Ok, this can easily be fixed.

Create a file called .htaccess (yes that is a period at the beginning) in the same folder as the index.html file. (providing that the file doesn't already exits)

And put this text at the top and save it:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php


This should solve the problem.

[eburn]

Jay, Dennis,

Thanks, both your advise solved my problem!!