 <p>index.php or index.html <em>should</em> be the default files loaded by your server when visiting a site, not home.html. Try clearing your cache. If that doesn't help it could be an issue in httpd.conf - but that sounds kind of extreme in this scenario.</p> <p>You can also look into using mod_rewrite in your .htaccess file so the redirect happens at the server level</p> <pre><code>Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / # redirect home.html to index.php RewriteRule ^home.html index.php [R=301,L] </code></pre>