# An ultrasimple nOOb - rookie question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/an-ultrasimple-noob-rookie-question/220015>\
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**Created:** [March 21, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/an-ultrasimple-noob-rookie-question/220015 "2007-03-21T23:01:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@mikken](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mikken)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/an-ultrasimple-noob-rookie-question/220015/1 "2007-03-21T23:01:13Z")

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Hi

I remember back in the days, if you placed an ‘index.htm(l)’ page in your web folder, that page would automatically be read. This is not the case for my page now.

I have read about the .htaccess file, whcih lets you set just about any type of file as your index file, but my page runs on a windows server, so it won’t work, as i’ve gathered.

So, how do you make this trick work? I actually want index.asp to be my index file, but i can compromise if there’s no way to do it.