Home page naming: index/welcome/home, etc.

[Christine Smith]

At 11:03 PM 5/15/97 -0700, Bob Duncan wrote:
>My questions: (1) Is there a standard (yeah I know...sorry)
>pecking order?, i.e., in the absence of a filename at the end of
>a URL, does the server look first for welcome.htm, then
>index.htm, then home.htm, etc.; or, if there is no standard (my
>guess), (2) is this configured for each server by the system
>admin, or is server software preconfigured to look for certain
>filenames as default home pages?

Server software is preconfigured to look for default names as index pages,
but I believe this can be overridden to a specified file name or set of
file names by the sys-admin.

Christine

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Christine B. Smith --  USC Annenberg PhD Candidate
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