I believe it is a very common httpd setting. It is going to loko for something like "index.html" if there is only a path without a filename, i.e. it ends in a slash.
--------- # DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory # is requested. # # The index.html.var file (a type-map) is used to deliver content- # negotiated documents. The MultiViews Option can be used for the # same purpose, but it is much slower. # DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var ---------- These is indeed an index.html under htdocs/FAQ -Galt Wes Barris wrote: > The following page: > > http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/ > > contains links to FAQ pages, however, the links do not contain > any (.html) extension. What httpd configuration option is being > used to serve these .html pages when the URL does not include the > file extension? > > The reason I am asking is because our UCSC mirror is not serving > these pages because of the missing file extensions in the links. _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
