Index Files & .htaccess

[Elludium_Q-36]

Hello,

I have a hosted website.

I need to keep the links short:

• On printed business cards, where people enter the link, by hand, despite my providing a QR code. (Think FONT & TYPO'S…); and,

• On really small screens/screen areas.  For example, my Android phone's "Contact Owner" screen AREA is TINY.  That is where I put a link to a contact form, in case I lose the device. (AGAIN, FONT & TYPO'S!!!)

On my hosted site, links that only specify the directory, not a specific file, the server only searches for 3 "index" file types:

"index.html", "index.htm", or "index.php"

However, I'm fairly certain I need to have SHTML/SHTM/(PHTML :-P ) files, since I'm going for Server Side Includes/Server Side Scripting.  NOT Client Side Scripting, Client Side Javascript, for example.

Is it possible to write my .htaccess file, in each directory, or in the parent, to rewrite/redirect the server's interpretation of the link, calling for "index.html, index.htm or index.php" to "index.shtml", or "????.shtml"?

If you know this to be true, can you suggest the syntax?

I HAVE done some googling, but it seems that the Apache syntax is unforgiving.

Thanks!

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