Simple but silly question - Paths/tags

geezdesign · Jul 3, 2004

Relatively new to things at the moment but wanted to ask a question that probably the first person will answer.

When uploading a website, what command/tag tells it to look for the index.htm page?

Obviously i've designed the site with respect to how it interacts with the other pages but if you were to load up say www.website.com.au what in the coding would tell the server to look and display the index.htm file?

Thanks

adam_uk · Jul 3, 2004

you need to look at the config file for the web server

iis admin for iis
httpd.conf for apache

iDeviseFlash · Jul 3, 2004

ya. If its a nix server, your homepage is index.htm , if its windows, its main.htm I know that the nix one is right, but im not positive on windows being main.htm. Anyone wanna clear that up?

dgaussin · Jul 3, 2004

Or default.html too. Like Adam said, you have to know how the http server is configured.

David.

Peter · Jul 3, 2004

most servers will already know to look for index.htm but if you are using apache as webserver you sould create a htaccess file and state it in there

he following is an example of what you can put in the file:-

DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl default.htm

if more than 1 match it will do the first 1 that is in that list. The file should be called .htaccess (nothing before the .)

iDeviseFlash · Jul 3, 2004

ohh, i didn know about default.htm , is it used much, because it doesnt seem to be.

Peter · Jul 3, 2004

most people use index.htm as it is what most packages use etc and is what apache uses.

I think default.htm is the IIS standard index page but its a long time since ive used IIS so I may be wrong

iDeviseFlash · Jul 3, 2004

ya, i havent seen main.htm in a long time. most all are index.htm, like u said/

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