Okay, Currently I have the default coppermine structure (I'm using sef_urls):
http://www.mysite.com/index.php - Homepage, category/album lists
http://www.mysite.com/index-1.php - First Category
http://www.mysite.com/index-2.php - Second Category
http://www.emobucket.com/thumbnails-12.html - Random Album
http://www.emobucket.com/thumbnails-20.html - Another random album
What I want to do is replace index.php with index.html, and move index.php to gallery.php, effectively making my structure this:
http://www.mysite.com/index.php - Homepage
http://www.mysite.com/gallery.php - Category/Album lists
http://www.mysite.com/index-1.php - First Category
http://www.mysite.com/index-2.php - Second Category
http://www.emobucket.com/thumbnails-12.html - Random Album
http://www.emobucket.com/thumbnails-20.html - Another random album
See, I want to keep index-1.php and index-2.php where they currently are.
What I'm thinking is that I need to do this:
Rename index.php to gallery.php
Upload my new index.html
Re-write gallery-1.php to index-1.php using htaccess
But my question is, where in the script would I tell coppermine the location of the index.php file?
Is this even possible? As of now when you come to my site you are greeted with a modified coppermine index.php that is VERY, VERY resource demanding. It's loading my server and with my increasing traffic it seems I'm upgrading my server every 2 weeks, hopefully this could reduce the load.
Keep it as index.php and add in an index.html. Make the index.html the default using DirectoryIndex in .htaccess if it isn't already default.
Ahh...
So make the server look for index.htm / index.html first, than duplicate index.php as gallery.php, but keep the old index.php so the categories still work fine?
Is there anything I could do to make index.php not accessible
so say someone types in mysite.com/index.php, I don't want them to be able to access it ???
Use a redirect or rewrite.