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Webserver directory index
*** Shopping-Tip: Webserver directory index
When an
HTTP client (generally a
web browser) requests a
URL that points at just a
directory (computing) directory rather than at a
computer file file within a directory the
web server will generally serve up some kind of main or index page.
'''index.html''' is the traditional filename for such a page, but most decent webservers will allow a list of filenames to be configured. If a server is set up to support
server-side scripting then there will usually be entries in the list to allow dynamic content to be used as the index page (for example: index.
php, index.
shtml, default.
Active Server Pages asp). In the popular
opensource web server
Apache web server Apache the list of filenames is controlled by the DirectoryIndex directive in the configuration file.
If the webserver cannot find a page with any of the names its set to try then it may either return an error (generally
404_error 404 (Not Found) ) or create its own index page of the files in the directory. This is usually also a configuarable option.
In order to allow relative links to work correctly the URL for a directory must end with a slash. If it does not then most webservers will send a
http redirect to add the slash.
http://www.mysite.tld is not really a valid url but almost all browsers will turn it into
http://www.mysite.tld/ automatically and this will then result in the serving up of the index page from the root directory of the website.
Category:World Wide Web
pt:Index.html
