Publishing web pages
To publish web pages using a Challenger web server there are a few
things the web page creator ought to know. This chapter will explain
the basics.
Using Challenger directly
To publish an HTML page through Challenger, the web page creator only
needs to know in what directory the files should be placed and on what
URL the pages will be found. This is configured by the administrator
of the server.
The virtual server used must have a file system module enabled. The
file system module can mount a directory from a normal file system as
a virtual file system. When referring to other files, the path to the
file must be in the virtual file system. Both absolute and relative
paths can be used.
To display the contents of a directory, a directory parsing module
is needed. If a file called index.html is found in a
directory that is mounted by a file system module, it will be shown
when pointing a browser to the URL of that directory. By default the
server will look for the following files: index.html, Main.html,
welcome.html, index.cgi, index.lpc, index.pike, in that order.
The names and the order can be configured by the administrator.
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