messagebrd.pl

[thosecars82]

hello
First time I used the .htaccess I was told to place this

DirectoryIndex indes.php index.html index.php3 messagebrd.pl index.html index.htm

to let the url http://www.example.com was rewriten internally into
http://www.example.com/index.php for exmaple.

The part that I do not understand is the messagebrd.pl. What does this messagebrd.pl stand for? Why index.html is repeated? May be, I could place index.html but just once instead of twice like I wrote above.
Thanks.

[jdMorgan]

This is a list of files which should be checked when a directory index (any URL ending with a slash) is requested. The files are checked in order from left to right, and the server will serve the contents of the first one that is found to exist in the requested directory.

This list only needs to contain the names of the files that *you* use. You can delete all the others. Having other filenames present wastes CPU time, and actually can constitute a security risk.

messagebrd.pl may be a message board script that your host provides in case you want to use it.

Why two "index.html" files? Sloppy coding or no proofreading, or both.

Jim

[g1smd]

As for sloppy proof-reading, the "indes.php" entry is a typo too.

[thosecars82]

Thanks and Is there any settings I can fix in this forum to set that I want to receive an email every time I someone replies anything to a thread which I started?
It is just that that option is very common in forums but I have not seen it here yet.

[g1smd]

Look to the right of the "Quick Reply" box, and just above the "Submit" button.

Hidden in plain sight.

[thosecars82]

Well, I had already seen that. What I meant was some kind of option that I could set to avoid having to mark that in every post I write. That is to say, is there any way to have that option option of email notification enabled by default?
Thanks