Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 1990

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Setting the Primary Document Directory
Managing Server Content
You can use the NetWare
You can create HTML pages and other files such as graphics or text and then
store those files on your server. When users connect to your server, they can
view your files provided they have access to them.
This chapter describes how your users can contribute content to your Web
server and how you can configure and manage content files and folders.
You probably don't want to make all the files on your file system available to
remote clients. An easy way to restrict access is to keep all of your server's
documents in a central location, known as the document root or primary
document directory.
Another benefit of the document directory is that you can move your
documents to a new directory (perhaps on a different disk) without changing
any of your URLs, because the paths specified in the URLs are relative to the
primary document directory.
For example, if your document directory is
SYS:NOVONYX\SUITESPOT\DOCS, a request such as http://
www.novell.com/products/info.html tells the server to look for the file
INFO.HTML in SYS:NOVONYX\SUITESPOT\DOCS\PRODUCTS\.
If you change the document root (by moving all the files and subdirectories),
you only have to change the document root that the server uses, instead of
mapping all URLs to the new directory or telling clients to look in the new
directory.
To set your server's primary document directory, do the following:
1
From the Web Manager home page, click Enterprise Web Server
servername > Content Management > Primary Document Directory.
2
In the Primary directory field, enter the full pathname of the directory that
you want to make the primary document directory.
3
Click OK > Save and Apply.
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Web Manager to help manage Web server content.
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