>>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?
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>One thing I would add to what Randy told you, is that this is not a mapping to your IP, it is simply a default document for any directory.
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>www.somedomain.com/index.htm
>is equivalent to:
>www.somedomain.com
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>but so too is:
>www.somedomain.com/subdir/subdir/index.thm
>equivalent to:
>www.somedomain.com/subdir/subdir/
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>Think of the IP as the unique Internet name of a computer, the DN as an alias for the IP, and everything after .com as a path to a document. The web server just substitutes the default.htm if you don't specify an actual document, but instead give a path ending with a directory. If you omit the path altogether, the web server gives the default document (/default.htm)

Thanks guys, I think I see how to work with the site now.