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There was a great 40+ thread post a few months back on Designing Low Maintenance Websites:-
[webmasterworld.com...]
One of the topics involved creating a directory structure that would hide the technology you use, i.e.
www.example.com/latest news/
vs.
www.example.com/latest news/the_news.html
I was intrigued by this and have tried it on a site I'm developing, but am running into a wall. Here's a sample href from the site I'm developing locally:
<a href="/latest/">Latest News</a>
(inside the "/latest/" directory is a single file: index.htm)
When I test the link on my local, the browser shows the index.htm icon but doesn't load the file like I thought it would and/or should.
Is this because I'm trying to test this locally? Would this work once I upload all directories to my server? Am I doing something wrong? I'm hand-coding using Dreamweaver MX - is there some secret setting that I'm unaware of which I need to set?
I have seen the source of a bunch of sites that use this exact href syntax, but for some reason it's not working for me.
Any suggestions/guidance greatly appreciated.
Neophyte
[edited by: trillianjedi at 2:33 pm (utc) on Mar. 17, 2005]
[edit reason] Added link to referenced thread... [/edit]
if not, then your machine doesnt know to serve index.html by default, and therefore just shows the file list.
should work when you upload.
ben
Or, if you have access to a file called ".htaccess", you can add this line:
DirectoryIndex index.htm
