Axis 2420 User Manual page 55

Customizing Your Camera
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Creating a New Home Page
Having created and stored your new custom Web pages in product memory, you then
proceed to assign one of these pages as your default Home page in the AXIS 2420, as
described below:
Caution!
Adding a new Web page to your AXIS 2420 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 2420, by entering:
ftp <camera ip address>
2. Type
bin
3. Navigate your way to the appropriate directory, entering:
cd /etc/httpd/conf/
4. Fetch the
get boa.conf
5. Edit
boa.conf
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 camera, by using the
6. Restart the camera.
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!
7. 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-address/view/index.html
file, by typing:
boa.conf
and add the following lines to the end of the file:
directory and redirect access to it. Replace the edited
put
command.
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file stored in the
index.html
Document Root
in
boa.conf
so