apache configuration

[Tony Hammitt]

I think you need this:

#
# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index.  Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi 
index.pl index.htm Default.htm default.htm
</IfModule>

Mine's in /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf.  This says that when someone 
just gives a directory name as the URL path, look for these files in 
this order and bring up the first one you find.

To create the pages, I use a text editor called Nedit (www.nedit.org). 
 There really is nothing like the flexibility of programming it all 
yourself.  For basic page layout, netscape/mozilla composer is easy to 
use and I've heard good things about bluefish.  However, none of them 
let you do anything meaningful with web programming languages like 
Python/PHP/Perl, so that's why I normally just program everything by 
hand.  If you want some examples of PHP code, I have plenty.

Regards,

    Tony

Minos wrote:

> recently i have set up a webserver running redhat 8, (gentoo gave me funny
> errors, but thats another thread all together). Im using this webserver to
> earn about servers and app's and such. Well I have apache up and running
> now, as well as a good ftp server and sshd. Now comes the time to make a
> webpage. Whats a good program to use that will work with apache, Price 
> isnt
> a real issue, im willing to shell out the cash if needed, but free is 
> always
> good. I would like something that looks decent, nothing worse than a 
> shotty
> webpage that just has basic fonts and crappy text. So what do you all use?
> And my last quick question, How do I set up the start page when my web 
> addy
> is put in, example mywebpage.com needs to open the index.htm to show my
> webpage, the test page worked fine, however when I put in a basic htm file
> that I made in its place it doesnt work, in var/www/html I used the 
> grapical
> front end and set the webpage search order to incude index.htm in the 
> list,
> however it still comes up as cannot be dispayed error like there is no
> webpage there. However when I type in mywebpage.com/index.htm it finds 
> it No
> problem. HLEP! heh. And please excuse me for my typo's and 
> misspellings, im
> in a huge rush and I spilled a coke on my keyboard a few days ago, killed
> the L key and a few others, so I have to slam it down, I may left out 
> a few
> L's ;)
> Thanx for listening to my babble and taking the time to try to help me.
> Tim