Precedence, HTML and PHP Index File

I put an index.html file and an index.php file in the root directory of my site together, when I navigate to my开发者_如何学运维 site, www.site.com, it serves the php file instead of the html file, my question is why? Why does it serve the php over html? Apache server.

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Check the DirectoryIndex directive of Apache.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_dir.html

For instance

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

Will try to serve first the html, if it doesn't exist it will serve the php.

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Apache can be told to prefer the .php or the .html file.

Look for a section like this in the configuration file.

DirectoryIndex index.php 

and change it to

DirectoryIndex index.html