XAMPP

I'm usng the XAMPP/Apache server and anytime I change the starting page I still get that annoying page of "Seeing this instead of the website you expected?".The only way to get to the content is to put in /index.html. How do I make it go automatically to the content. Also I can only get the content if I put in "http://localhost/index.html" but if I put in"http://127.0.0.1/index.html" I just get the default apache page; why is that? Someone help me please!:angry:

well i dont know much about apache but with mine i just replaced the index.html file all together with the one i made try. getting rid of the file and replacing it with the index you made