Topic awaiting preservation: The Server's Fault?

To get the website I am working on to appear based on its domain name, I've had to rename "index.html" to "default.html" and the address line in the browser displays "index.asp" no matter which page within the site you are viewing. It will also not display the title's of the pages.

This is the school's student organization server.

Can anyone explain why this is happening and how I can make it use index.html?

Edit: Upon further testing, this appears to be a problem with the redirect rather than the server the site is actually on. Another problem is that the redirect is somehow breakin the page. Without the redirect the site fits whatever window it is in without a horizontal scroll bar. WITH the redirect, the page is always about 20px too wide.


It's pronounced "Spikes!"

[This message has been edited by SPyX (edited 10-16-2003).]

Sounds like some server setting which need adjuting to me, depends what server you're running (if you're running it yourself)

should be one for browser address masking (the asp thing i assume) and what is the "default" page, eg index.html / defaul.html

I'm gonna bump this a bit as it is rather urgent. I realize the information given may be inadaquate, but it is all I know as of now. If so, please tell what I need to find out.

-Thanks!

OK...the fact that it uses default.html instead of index.html is part of the server's config (I'm going to assume it's an Apache server here. If you're using IIS I may be forced to kill you). You'll find the setting in the httpd.conf file, and the line you're looking for (if you have access to the file) is DirectoryIndex, where you'll find a sequential order of the page names and extensions it will accept as pre-written directory indexes. For example I have index.html and index.php in mine.

The fact that every page you display is displayed as index.asp is part of a mod_rewrite rule. There's heaps of stuff on mod_rewrites in the faq

What are search-engine friendly URLs?

[This message has been edited by Skaarjj (edited 10-17-2003).]

Ok, I can understand that. I can even almost accept it. (I have no control over the server.) But, I can't really allow my pages to be gimped. Nor do I understand WHY it is happening. Guess it's time to figure out who DOES control the server.

Thanks for the help.