MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3 - USING AND ADMINISTERING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual page 166

Using and administering

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After you have set up a connection to a website, you can send that connection information in a

connection key file to users. Or, if the website is managed by Contribute Publishing Server (CPS),

you can use the URL.

Web server index pages

The index page for a website is the default web page that appears when a visitor enters a website

(such as www.mysite.com) but doesn't specify a page on the website. A web server can be

configured to look for a page with a particular filename if no page is specified; the most common

default index page filenames are index.htm, index.html, default.htm, and default.html. If you are

unsure of the index page filenames that your web server uses, see your web server's

documentation.

In addition to the primary index page filename, most web servers are configured with alternate

index page filenames, specifying pages to be displayed if there is no page with the filename

requested as the primary index page.

For example, a web server might look for the following index page names (in this order):

index.htm

index2.htm

404error.htm

If there is a page named index.htm, the server sends that page to the browser to be displayed; if

there isn't such a page, then the server sends index2.htm to the browser. If neither of those index

pages is available, the server sends the 404error.htm page to the browser. Secondary pages such as

these often provide an alternate entrance to the website or inform the visitor that the website is

unavailable.

Contribute includes a list of popular index page filenames, using most of the popular document

type extensions (.htm, .html, .cfm, .asp, .jsp, .php, and so on). If the index page filename that you

use for your website is listed in the Index files section of the Index and URL Mapping dialog box

(index.cfm, for example), then you can most likely ignore this configuration option. If, however,

your index page filenames are not included among those listed in the dialog box, you must add

your index page filenames to the list, and arrange the names in the order in which your web server

is configured to look for them.

For example, if your website uses a Macromedia ColdFusion application server that uses the

document type extension .cfm, and the index page for your website uses the filename main.cfm,

you need to add the filename main.cfm to the list of index pages in the Index and URL Mapping

dialog box, and list that filename as the first page that Contribute should look for on the website.

The next section explains how to add an index page filename to your Contribute settings.

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