Re: LYNX-DEV http question

[Gustavo ASR Felisberto]

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On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Laura Eaves wrote:

> a valid-looking url like
>       lynx http://www.voicenet.com/~leaves/file.html

It seems it only "looked" valid :)

> other files can only be reached as links through this file.  index.html is
> accessed magically by typing the url
>       http://www.voicenet.com/~leaves/

Not true.... When you type for example lynx http://www.ci.uc.pt/~humpback
the httpd server looks for a dirctory public_html (or another
name, but you have to be root to configure this) under the users HOME, if
it finds it, it will try to get a file called index.html (or another name,
but this as is root configured). If we finds such a file it will send it
to you, if not we will either send you a list of the files and dirctorys
in public_html or it will send an error.


> When I want to link to ~leaves/public_html/file.html, I just put a link
> with href="file.html" in index.html.  When I select this link, lynx constructs
> the url
>       http://www.voicenet.com/~leaves/file.html
> Is this normal, or just part of voicenet's configuraiton?

Probably it is voicenet's configuraiton, you should have acesse to
file.html, withought having to put href="file.html" in index.html.

Try acessing a file2.html withought puting a link to it in index.html, you
will see that it probably works,..

> I grepped lynx src for 'public_html' and 'index' and found nothing.

In is not the lynx source, try geting a httpd (i advise apache
http://www.apache.org) and see the configuration files....

Gustavo A.S.R. Felisberto AKA Humpback
address@hidden / EU at IRC
http://www.ci.uc.pt/~humpback

"They are not men, walking in the streets below"

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