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You can set an order of precedence for the files to be called at server level, as joomla_php suggests, the usual setup calles HTML before PHP anyway, so try that, and you may not have to talk to the host to see what their order of precedence is set to.<br />
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Here's a fairly standard order of primacy for Unix servers:<br />
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.html<br />
.htm<br />
.shtml<br />
.php<br />
.cgi<br />
.pl
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You can set an order of precedence for the files to be called at server level, as joomla_php suggests, the usual setup calles HTML before PHP anyway, so try that, and you may not have to talk to the host to see what their order of precedence is set to.

Here's a fairly standard order of primacy for Unix servers:

.html
.htm
.shtml
.php
.cgi
.pl

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Hi, I've been using Joomla for a while, but never had to do this before. &nbsp;I need to make the home page out of one intergrated image. &nbsp;So I'd like to use a static home page and then link it into the Joomla internal pages. &nbsp;Problem is that I can't figure out how to setup the site to view the static home page first instead of the Joomla index.php I'd like default.php and it to be static, meanin not using the Joomla template and then link from that to the internal pages.
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Hi, I've been using Joomla for a while, but never had to do this before.  I need to make the home page out of one intergrated image.  So I'd like to use a static home page and then link it into the Joomla internal pages.  Problem is that I can't figure out how to setup the site to view the static home page first instead of the Joomla index.php I'd like default.php and it to be static, meanin not using the Joomla template and then link from that to the internal pages.

How do I use a static page for Joomla's Home Page?

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