My page doesn't load unless I add index.php to address

[CharlieVIE]

Hi,

I just installed Joomla yesterday and I have a little problem. I am sure it's an easy fix, I just can't find it. So first here is System Info:
PHP Built On Windows NT U15411396 6.0 build 6002
Database Version 5.0.45-community-nt
Database Collation utf8_general_ci
PHP Version 5.2.6
Web Server Microsoft-IIS/7.0
WebServer to PHP Interface isapi
Joomla! Version Joomla! 1.7.0 Stable [ Ember ] 19-Jul-2011 14:00 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version Joomla Platform 11.1 Stable+Modified [ Ember ] 01-Jun-2011 06:00 GMT
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.24 Safari/535.2

And now my problem. I installed joomla in the directory http://www.mydomain.com/joomla. I also have Mambo and WP install on other domains, and with those installations when I go to http://www.mydomain.com/mambo ... for example ... The index.php loads automatically. With joomla I have to enter http://.../joomla/index.php to make the frontpage load. Even when I click on home the site comes back with 404 Not Found.

Any ideas?

Thanks


Cheers
-= Charlie =-

[kannansreenivas]

in root file, is there any otner files as index.htm, index.htnl, or some thing like that ?

[CharlieVIE]

Yes, there is an index.php file.
Here is a list of files I have in my joomla directory:
configuration.php
htaccess.txt
index.php
joomla.xml
LICENSE.txt
README.txt
robots.txt
web.config.txt

I tried to see if it loads with an index.html and it does. I created index.html with a redirect to the index.php and it works. I just don't like this solution, because I know that search engines don't favor redirects.

Here is also my htaccess.txt (I stripped the comment lines):
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]


Thanks
Cheers
-= Charlie =-

[kannansreenivas]

it needs a detailed check.. also let me know.. what your front page is.. Is that front page blog lay out ? and you have published article in it.. ?

[Per Yngve Berg]

On the web server, you must set index.php as default. On an IIS server it's probably "default.asp" and index.php is not listed.

[webhelpus]

in root file, is there any otner files as index.htm, index.htnl, or some thing like that ?

Thank you. You just solved my problem!