Getting Here
If you want to use the more advanced Web features you
will need to set up your Web Site (also known as your "Homepage") so that
people viewing it always wind up using this Web Server for the entire Web Site,
or at least the pieces of it that need to be run on this Web Server instead
of the Main Departmental Web Server. To help with this we have configured
this Web Server to look for Directory Index files in the following order
(case sensitive!):
- Index.shtml - HTML plus SSI extensions
- Index.html - plain HTML
- index.shtml - HTML plus SSI extensions
- index.html - plain HTML
The Main Departmental Web Server will not look for
"Index.shtml" or "Index.html" so you can put files suitable to the Main
Departmental Web server in "index.shtml" or "index.html" and files suitable
to the Student Web Server in "Index.shtml" or "Index.html".
If you would like people to wind up using this Web Server to access your entire
Web Site you have several options.
- Tell people that your homepage is at
"http://www-student.cse.buffalo.edu/~username/"
- Set up your index.html file
so that it is very simple and contains a link to this server.
- Set up your index.html file to
automatically forward people to this server.
You will want to make sure you provide "Index.shtml" or "Index.html"
in your "public_html"
directory as the top-level page of your Web Site.
If you don't do that and you use either the second or
third option above then you will have formed a loop that people visiting
your homepage will not be able to get out of because this server will be
using the same "index.html" file as our Main Departmental Web Server will
be using (so this server will be forwarding to itself).
Instead of setting it up so your entire Web Site gets handled by this
Web Server you can set it up so that this Web Server only handles the
pieces of your Web Site that the Main Departmental Web Server cannot.
In this case just set your Web Site up assuming that it
is all being viewed by our Main Departmental Web Server, but when it comes
to specifying things like the ACTION for a FORM specify it as a URL that
points to this Web Server instead.
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