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Change Your Default/Index File

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Last Updated: June 19, 2015 9:36 AM

Your hosting account's default file displays when visitors go to your site. For more information, see What file displays when someone browses to my domain name?

Plesk has a built-in feature to let you reorder the preference for default files, as well as add new default file names.

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Web Hosting.
  3. Next to the Plesk account you want to use, click Manage.
  4. At the bottom of the section of the domain hosting you want to use, click Show More.
  5. Click Virtual Directories.
  6. Click Directory Properties.
  7. In the Default documents search order field, change the order of the file names that display or enter the new filename you want to use.
  8. Click OK.