Apologies in advance if this question has already been answered somewhere in here, was unable to find an answer. I have the following scenario: o A live site, let's call it http://www.mydomain.com/ o A default index page at http://www.mydomain.com/index.php The site works fine and the index.php page loads as it should according to Apache defaults. It has a few buttons doing form posts for search functionality etc. Now, for various obscure reasons, I want to change the scenario so that I instead load a static index.html page that in turn contains a FRAMESET element. One of the frames in the frameset would contain the index.php page described above and take up all visible space in the browser. There would be an additional zero size frame with some metadata. To accomplish this I made the following changes: o Enable an .htaccess file in the root of the web site. The .htaccess has a DirectoryIndex directive which internally loads the index.html page when you hit http://www.mydomain.com/ o Created the index.html page with the frameset and added the two required frames to it. One of them being the index.php Now when I hit http://www.mydomain.com/, the frameset page gets loaded. So far so good. But when I hit any buttons that do form posts on the visible part of the page (generated by the index.php) all the posts fail. Ok, so maybe there is a frame dependency in some script or the php page that receives the post etc etc somewhere and this is messing things up, so I tried going directly to the frameset page at: http://www.mydomain.com/index.html and when I do this the posts work fine. This really blows my mind. To recoup, when I go to: http://www.mydomain.com/ and apache internally loads the index.htm because of the DirectoryIndex directive things do not work. When I manually go to the index.htm page by writing: http://www.mydomain.com/index.htm in the adress bar, things work fine. This is also the case when I set index.html as default via the httpd.conf. Now, I'm somwehat novice at apache, but as far as I understand the two scenarios should load the page in exactly the same way. What am I missing here? What is the difference in the state of the page between the two ways of loading the page? I'm completely stomped and I've tried about a gazillion permutations of tings to get this working...any help greatly appreciated.
Make sure you are using absolute urls in the form tags. eg <form action="http://www.domain.com/file.php3" action="post"> Code (markup):
Tried now with the absolute paths in the <form> but that doesnt work. I really cant understand why the site works perfectly if I write absolut adress but not when I set inmdex.html as default.