Index pages

When you type the url: http://www.whoi.edu/internal/ into your browser, you get the WHOI internal page. Note that this url does not specify a filename. That's because when the WHOI server gets a request (url) that doesn't specify a particular web page, it looks for a default web page (index.html).

If the server doesn't find an index.html file, two things can happen. The browser may display an error message - that's what happens on the WHOI server - or a listing of all the files inside the folder. Neither result is desirable, so it's a good idea to give the main web page in each folder in your site the proper default page name - index.html on the WHOI server.

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