The below steps will assist you in setting the default home page on your site.
Step1: Login to Cpanel Panel.
Step2: Open File Manager in Cpanel.
Step3: Click on Settings at the top right corner. Select the Document Root and ensure that Show Hidden files(dotfiles) are selected. Next, click on the Save button.
Step4: Open the ".htaccess" file and click on "Edit."
Step5: Insert the following line of code into your .htaccess file to set your desired index page. Here, we have set home.php as an example.
# Custom default index page
DirectoryIndex home.php
You can also specify multiple files. The server will attempt to locate them in the order they are listed, moving from left to right.
# Custom default index pages
DirectoryIndex home.php hello.htm welcome.html
You can set any page as the default page for your website.
Step6: Click on Save Changes. We have successfully set home.php as the default page.
Now, whenever you access your website, it will load the home.php as the default page.
