Home page or default page is the first page which gets displayed to your website visitor when they type your domain name in their browser.

Home/Default page should be uploaded with one of the following file names.

Following is the order of precedence for the default files.

  Linux Accounts

index.html
index.htm
index.php3
index.php
index.php4
index.cgi
index.shtml
index.sht
index.wml

  Windows Accounts

default.htm
default.asp
default.aspx
default.html
index.htm
index.html
index.asp
index.aspx
index.php

When a visitor types your domain name in their browser, server will search for default file in order mentioned above. If you have uploaded multiple files with one of the above file names, file name with higher priority will be set as your default/home page.

e.g. If you upload files as index.php & index.htm then  index.htm will be your default page.