Directory Sites?

[William J. Frost]

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Jennifer Sarber wrote:

> Greetings everyone:
> 
> We have a website for children's librarians on an Apple webserver.  The
> correct address is:
> http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ldo/childrens/index.htm.  The problem
> is someone published the address as:
> http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ldo/childrens/  and forgot the file
> name index.htm.
> 
> So in my efforts to help find a solution I would like to change the
> childrens/ from a file folder to a directory with a default document as
> index/htm.  Is that even possible, am I saying anything that is even
> sensible?
> 
> I have tried to make the childrens/ its own document but it would not
> work.
> 
> I appreciate any help offered.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Jennifer
> -- 
> Jennifer Sarber
> Indiana State Library
> Management Information Services
> jsarber at statelib.lib.in.us
> http://www.statelib.lib.in.us
> 
Jennifer,

By default, index.html designates that page as the home page for a site.
Anyone going to the directory
http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ldo/childrens/  will automatically be
taken to index.htm.  9 less characters for your users to type, so the
publishers actually performed a service.  You don't have to change a
thing!


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