How to change default web page using htaccess?

Use the following htaccess code to change the default web page or to set a custom webpage as the default page for your website. For example in the code below, the default page is set as about.html instead of index.html

# serve alternate default index page

DirectoryIndex about.html

Article ID: 391
Created: Sun, Mar 14, 2010
Last Updated: Sun, Mar 14, 2010
Author: Administrator

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