Re: HomePage URL without a file name.How?

robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool)

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From: robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 08:55:54 -0600
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       "Re: HomePage URL without a file name.How?" (Jan  6,  5:43pm)
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Subject: Re: HomePage URL without a file name.How?
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 * Re: HomePage URL without a file name.How?  by dolesa@smtp-gw.spawar.navy.mil (dolesa@smtp-gw.spawar.navy.mil)
 *    written on Jan  6,  5:43pm.
 *
 * 
 *      
 * It took me a while to figure that one out too.  Index.html is the default
 * name.  If you don't have a document named that, it will create a directory
 * index for you, thus bypassing your intended home page.  This is not 
 * documented very clearly.  Hope this helps.
 *      
 */

Actually, I created the document
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/setup/admin/AccessingFiles.html because I
was recieving nine million questions exactly like that... I'm not sure how
much more clearly I can document it.

--Rob