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Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition
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Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition

by Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
588 pages
25h 57m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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index.html

What we see in the previous listing is the index that Apache concocts in the absence of anything better. We can do better by creating our own index page in the special file ... /htdocs/index.html :

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Index to Butterthlies Catalogs</title>
 </head>
<body>
<ul>
<li><A href="catalog_summer.html">Summer catalog</A>
<li><A href="catalog_autumn.html">Autumn catalog</A>
</ul>
<hr>
<br>Butterthlies Inc, Hopeful City, Nevada 99999
</body>
</html>

We needed a second file (catalog_autumn.html) to make our site look convincing. So we did what the management of this outfit would do themselves: we copied catalog_summer.html to catalog_autum.html and edited it, simply changing the word Summer to Autumn and including the link in ... /htdocs.

Whenever a client opens a URL that points to a directory containing the index.html file, Apache automatically returns it to the client (by default, this can be configured with the DirectoryIndex directive). Now, when we visit, we see:

INDEX TO BUTTERTHLIES CATALOGS
*Summer Catalog
*Autumn Catalog
--------------------------------------------
Butterthlies Inc, Hopeful City, Nevada 99999

We won’t forget to tell the web search engines about our site. Soon the clients will be logging in (we can see who they are by checking ... /logs/access_log). They will read this compelling sales material, and the phone will immediately start ringing with orders. Our fortune is on its way to being made. ...

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