[thelist] web page extensions

[Jim Dabell]

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On Thursday 25 July 2002 9:57 pm, Mark Joslyn wrote:
> So companies that implement this system have a lot of files named
> index.html or default.html (one for each directory)? That seems a little
> confusing to keep naming files the same name.

Yes, you do end up with quite a lot of index files.  It's not confusing
however; since you are clearly organising your files into a directory
structure, there should be no confusion over different files because of
their context - when you edit example.com/catalogue/index.html you aren't
going to confuse it with example.com/support/index.html

You don't have to supply an index page for each directory - depending on
server configuration, you could end up with a listing of the files in that
directory, or a 'permission denied' error page when you request a directory
that you don't have an index page for.

- --
Jim


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