external.js not executed

[cyrus67]

i have the following code placed in an external javascript file but when it's referenced rather than being executed as i hoped it's being displayed. can anyone please tell me why this is?

the code in index.js:

<!-- Hide script
//<![CDATA[
window.location.href="

http://www.breakdowncoverandgo.co.uk/index.php"

//]]> End script hiding -->

thanks

Cyrus Tiz

 

[dkdude]

Don't think you need all the hiding. If the browser don't support javascripting, I don't think that the external script would be loaded at all.

Try just this

window.location.href='[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.breakdowncoverandgo.co.uk/index.php';[/URL]

By the way - you can redirect a page w/o javascript. You could go with this meta tag

<meta 
http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.breakdowncoverandgo.co.uk/index.php" />

 

[cyrus67]

thanks for your help. much appreciated.

in either case the module index.htm works when i try to access it as

http://www.breakdowncoverandgo.co.uk/index.htm

but not when i attempt to access

http://www.breakdowncoverandgo.co.uk/

am i correct in my assumption that

http://www.breakdowncoverandgo.co.uk/

will access index.htm

i am using firefox 1.5 and index.htm contains

<meta
http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.breakdowncoverandgo.co.uk/index.php" />

now, as per ur instruction

thanks

Cyrus

 

[dkdude]

About entering

http://www.domain.com/

It depends on the server configuration which file would be accessed. The server configuration typically holds a list of default files, and in which order the server will look for them -when no file name is entered.

In either case, I recommand that you have only one file named "index.something". "Something" refering to .htm, .html, php, php3 etc...

Note that on some servers, the default name is "default.something"

 

[cyrus67]

thanks for your patience and help

i had included index.htm and index.js files in my root folder and the latter was superseding the former.

why should the server default to index.js ? is that also server specific?

thanks again

Cyrus

 

[trollacious]

Some web hosting services allow users to define the order of priority for the default pages (default.htm(l)/php/asp/cfm, index.htm(l)/php/asp/cfm), and some define it for every site hosted on their server(s). I've never heard of a server being set up to default to ANY kind of JS file over one of the usual HTML page extensions.

Lee

 

[cyrus67]

Thanks very much, Lee.

Cyrus