[Xitami] New to list / couple q's..

[Thomas J. Hruska]

At 12:47 PM 6/21/2002 -0400, tom buckley writeth:
>  Hello,
>
>  I'm new to the list, but have not seen ANY posts since I've joined. I'm 
>not sure how it works, and if I'm doing wrong someone please let me know.
>
>  I have several questions regarding the xitami server, but until I'm sure 
>I'm doing this right, I will limit it to just one for now.
>
>  Whenever I build a new directory on my site, (for example): "home", and 
>fill it with pages such as pages: one, two and three, to access these pages 
>you would go to www.mydomain/home/one.html, or www.mydomain/home/two.html, 
>etc..  However, if someone simply types in: www.mydomain/home/  and hits 
>enter, a page is shown as that root directory, and lists all of the files 
>within that folder.  Is there any way to hide that page as the root 
>directory?  I would like it if users could NOT access that page showing that 
>whole folders contents, by individual files!  My reason for this is that I 
>often keep dupes, and experimental pages inside the same folder as is 
>public, and I would like for the user to only be able to access files that I 
>create a link to.  I hope I explained this well enough for "someone" to 
>answer it!  Thanks in advance for any help with this!  Once again, if I am 
>posting wrong, or going about this wrong, please let me know so I can 
>correct it!  Good day all!

Try naming 'one.html' to 'index.htm' or 'index.html'.  Unless you have
messed with the default server configuration, that should take care of the
problem.

Hope this helps!


          Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@shininglightpro.com
Shining Light Productions -- "Meeting the needs of fellow programmers"
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