Most web server software allows the specification of "default" document names. If specified, then when a URL specfies only a folder, and that folder contains a document with the default name, it is displayed. The most common settings are "default.htm" and "index.htm", but depending on platform and server software, others are often used as well. For example, using MS IIS with Active Server Pages, I might well include "default.asp" among my list of default document names.


>I just got my first private IP address. The IP address or DN go directly to
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>DEFAULT.HTM (so that DEFAULT.HTM cannot be seen)
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>which I can edit or replace from the pre-fab page. Anything else in my web space is a "subdirectory" (after a '/'). Is DEFAULT.HTM always a direct mapping to an IP (I mean, is it a standard), or is this just the way my web host has it set up?