No .htaccess? therefore .php.ini?

Basically, I require one thing and one thing only to be changed in my .htaccess.
When people go to:
team-memento.bplaced.com/new-website/

They are taken to index.php, however I want the home page/default directory to be home.php.
team-memento.bplaced.com/new-website/home.php

As far as I know, I can fix this by putting:
"DirectoryIndex team-memento.net/home.php"
into .htaccess.

However we don’t have access to htaccess, i read somewhere on the forums that I can make the changes using a .php.ini file?
I have tried making a file called .php.ini and putting “DirectoryIndex team-memento.net/home.php” in it however it has not fixed it…

help?

thanks

hola,

the directory index is indeed set by DirectoryIndex via .htaccess - .php.ini has nothing to do with this setting. You do have access to create and write to such a .htaccess file, what exactly is going wrong there?

ciao

it’sDirectoryIndex index.php index.html home.phporDirectoryIndex index.php index.html /home.phpif u want example.com/home.php even if the URL is actually example.com/directory/