Directory Sites?

[Thomas Dowling]

>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!
>

Sure about that?

"index.html" (which is not the same as index.htm) is only the default file
name for a directory on some servers.  Well, lots actually, enough to raise
this kind of confusion.  But Jennifer's server is WebSTAR 2.0, which uses
"Default.html" as its default file.   Jennifer did in fact have to change a
thing, namely WebSTAR's default file name, to index.htm (which, she tells me
off-list, she successfully did).

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu