can someone answer this for me:

I am in my servers's manual, checking out some of the documentation. when i type my url: http://my.url.net/manual

i dont get the default document. I do get the defauly doc when i just do the normal url, http://my.url.net


i do get the manual when i do http://my.url.net/manual/index.html.en , but i was just wondering why this is happening

Also, now that im viewing the manual, most html links dont work because they are not uncluding the .en after the .html?? whats up here?

ty!

well yes apache will search a directory, e.g http://my.url.net/manual for a list of potential index files, in order of preference. check your httpd.conf for?:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml

and adjust accordingly

i think the problem has more to do with the .en at the end of all the files

i know, that's why i said "adjust accordingly"....

oh i c, i just understood what you were getting at. Thank you for your help. not just this thread but the others as well. I know some questions were dumb!
still learnin!


ty!

ok, im still trying to figure this out:


i have my manual alias set,

Alias /manual "/var/www/manual"


and i named the index.html.en file in that dir to index.html

however when i browse to www.domain.com/manual

it give me this error in my access log,

[08/Jun/2003:18:55:33 -0400] "GET /manual HTTP/1.1" 301 343 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"


I added a DirectoryIndex directive in my httpd.conf and thats working, giving me index.html as the first, index.htm, then index.php and so on....i dont get this? does the alias have a special directive?

thanks in advance