So my site is hosted on Digital Ocean and the problem I am running into is for some reason or another it won't load the most recent version of itself into the main home page. But if I type www.domainName.com/index.html, that is the current page. How can I set www.domainName.com equal to www.domainName.com/index.html.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Unless you have another index file like index.htm or index.php that is taking precedence this is likely just a matter of needing to clear your browser cache. If you connect through a corporate or school network or are on certain ISPs it is also possible that the old version of your page is being cached elsewhere. In general I would recommend clearing the browser cache or trying a different browser first to rule that out.
You will want to edit this file:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf
For example. My website is in PHP, so my dir.conf file looks like this:
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
Since you want index.html to be served first, edit your file like this:
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>