Hi, again ;) --On Dienstag, 20. November 2001 12:43 +0100 Markus Schaber <markus.schaber@student.uni-ulm.de> wrote:
Hi,
Tino Wildenhain wrote:
www.gemeinsamlernen.de and www.solill.net will migrate to this new server, but foreign links have to stay intact. So index.html has to be the name for the index files.
Hehe. Refering explicitely to index.html was ever and with every server bad style :-)
Well - delivering an index file when pointing to a directory is somehow a "hack" the web server does. You can easily configure apache to make it always deliver the directory listing, regardless of any files inside the directory.
Sure. One can. But this is not the purpose of such a mechanism ;) Its meant to have nice looking URLs and index.html is not so nice ;) Furthermore no one uses http://foo.bar.com/index.html when refering to a site. So why using http://foo.bar.com/foo/index.html ?
So the directory/ and directory/index.html may be two really different contents. And I personally prefer to point directly to the file.
This makes it hard for Apaches content-negotiation either :-)
Additionally, I don't have much influence on the way other people create external links to our webpages :-(
No one will invent link names. If one uses index.html (s)he just copied a reference from your site. If you dont use links to index.html, no one else will :) Regards Tino fight-the-ugly-url-task-force ;))