To publish web pages using Roxen WebServer there are a few things
the web page creator ought to know. This chapter will explain the
basics.
Roxen WebServer
To publish an HTML page through Roxen WebServer, 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 site 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. An absolute path is static and begins at the root-level of the
file system or mounted directory. A relative path however is dynamic
and relative to the page from where the path is linked.
Our file's path: /home/eric/html/my_site/travel/Greece/animals.html
Absolute path to link an image from animals.html:
<img src="/home/eric/html/my_site/img/grasshopper.jpg" />
Relative path to link an image from animals.html:
<img src="../../img/grasshopper.jpg" />
Relative path to link a "facts" page from animals.html:
<a href="../../animals/insects/grasshoppers.html">More about grasshoppers</a>
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As in the example, a website might have a dedicated directory for
images in the site's root-directory (/home/eric/html/my_site/). This
dedicated directory becomes a place where all images for the site
might be stored and is easily accessed from the whole site. Using
relative links to these images and other documents on the site makes
it possible to move the entire site elsewhere without disrupting the
links on the site.
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, index.xml,
index.htm, index.pike and index.cgi, in that order. The names and
the order can be configured by the administrator.
