Re: "./" files

Hello, all.

John's message leads me to believe he's attempting to include his several
small websites under a single domain as Jolene described. My solution
also is as Jolene describes - using sub-directories with individual home
pages (index.htm) for each mini-website or stand-alone subject.  This is
the method I suggest in this situation to take advantage of sharing
graphic or other files among the websites.

Furthermore, John seems to be limiting his use of index.htm files,
whereas I suggest he consider the possible expansion of their use as
follows.

In this thread about home pages (index.htm) I haven't seen mentioned the
one use I especially like - that of redirection back to one's website
home page. Is this a valid use ?  It works for me.  Do any of your
readers use it this way ?

Now here's where I go further with the index.htm files.  I include an
index.htm file in every directory I don't want readers to be poking
around in.  These index.htm pages are nothing more than redirection pages
back to my intended point of entry home page.

For example, www.mysite.com/site1/maps/ may contain maps not currently
being used. Therefore, I include an index.htm file redirecting users back
to www.mysite.com/site1/index.htm.  I've decided on this procedure since
noticing that many website file listings are accessible when one enters
just the directory URL without a filename. 

Web hosts differ in how they handle the viewing of directory contents by
users.  Most hosts prevent such viewing and display an error page or a
'not allowed to view' message.  Other hosts, for their own reasons, want
to allow viewing directory contents.  So, to close a directory in this
second type of host, I've begun using redirection from an index.htm page.

Just another alternative use for your consideration, John.

Web Spinner



On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:30:52 -0000 "JOHN GAMBLE"
<JOHNG(at)acumen.sagehost.co.uk> writes:
> As a somewhat new member, I understand that the practice is to name 
> one's
> first/home page "./", and that this file must be in the root
> directory.  However, if one wishes to design several small websites, 
> one
> clearly cannot name all the individual home pages "./".  How 
> does
> one get around this?  Does using "indexA.html", indexB.html" etc 
> work?  Or
> "index1.html" and "index2.html" etc?  Nowhere can I find any written
> guidance on this point. [So far, of course, I have not uploaded any 
> draft
> pages to actual web sites].  I would be grateful for practical 
> guidance.
> Thanks
> 

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