How do I find the entry page?

[johnsmith153]

Whenever I see a PHP website (and given ftp access) I often struggle to find the entry page.

 

Most I see don't have index.php in the public_html directory - or that isn't the main entry page.

 

Htaccess and adding Wordpress, shopping carts etc. also messes around with which file is the entry page.

 

Is there a quick checklist of what a simpleton should do to find the entry page?

 

E.g.

(1) Check .htaccess................ etc.

[QuickOldCar]

You pretty much answered your own question.

 

Looking in the common places for the main page is what want to do.

.htaccess for any rewrite rules

index.php,index.html,index.asp and any other language is usually called index.something

 

if no special rewrite rules are in .htaccess, you can usually just visit the website and see what the name is. Such as http://mysite.com/Home/home.html

So naturally this would then be located in a folder labeled Home and within the folder the file is named home.html

Many times files are included such as themes, templates, view, display folders or whatever they could be named, so see whats included and follow all those.

 

Really is no magic way to find these, sometimes it takes having to look for it.