Re: LYNX-DEV http question

[Roger Hill]

On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Laura Eaves wrote:

> Is this normal, or just part of voicenet's configuraiton?
> I grepped lynx src for 'public_html' and 'index' and found nothing.
> 
 Ok, this is all to do with how the web server is set up.  

1. index.html is a standard H T M L construct: if a directory has an
index.html then pointing your browser at the name of the directory alone
will pick up the index document by default. You can configure the server
to recognise other index files, for example the Windows NT server uses
"welcome.htm", I believe.

2. The server can also be configured to assume a specific directory
appended to the users home directory when given a path like
/sunbeach/~rhill/file.html
In most cases the default is public_html, and so the path above is
expanded to /sunbeach/~rhill/public_html/file.html.  This can be changed
at the server level too. If you put the explicit path to your home
directory (i.e. leave out the ~ stuff) then the substitution does not
occur.

3. Finally, you can set up aliases in the server config so that for
example "boats" points to /roger/test/boats, and use abbreviated URL's
that way.  

All this stuff is very useful, but its all set at the server, so there's
not much you as a user can do about it.

I hope this helps, and is accurate enough that I don't get a flood of
messages saying I've got it all wrong!

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