Axis 250S User Manual page 49

AXIS 250S User's Manual
Creating a New Home Page
Having created and stored your new custom Web pages in product memory, proceed to
assign one of these pages as your default Home page in the AXIS 250S, as described below:
Caution!
Adding a new Web page to your AXIS 250S is not something that should be undertaken lightly. Remem-
ber: Axis does not support the personalization of product Web pages and strongly recommends that
inexperienced users DO NOT perform such modifications.
1. Start a new ftp session to the AXIS 250S, by entering:
ftp <server ip address >
2. Type
bin
3. Navigate your way to the appropriate directory, entering:
cd /etc/httpd/conf/
4. Fetch the
boa.conf
get boa.conf
5. Edit with a text editor (Notepad is not recommended) and add the following
boa.conf
line to the end of the file:
Alias /index.html /etc/httpd/html/index.html
Alias / /etc/httpd/html
This will create an alias to your own "homemade"
/etc/httpd/html/
the video server, by using the
Note:
As an alternative to the above, you might like to edit the line starting with
that it points directly to the local directory. However, after doing this you will then be unable to
access the original Home pages - so be warned!
6. After making these changes, you will not be able to automatically access the default
index page. Instead you must type in the complete URL to access it:
http://IP#/view/index.shtml
or, if PTZ is enabled:
http://IP#/view/ptzFrame.shtml
file, by typing:
directory and redirect access to it. Replace the edited
command.
Put
Customizing The AXIS 250S
file stored in the
index.html
Document Root
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in
boa.conf
so