12.7. The default catalog page

As you know, a standard Interchange catalog page URL looks like this:

  http://localhost/cgi-bin/tutorial/index.html

But what happens if you leave off the page name, as people often do when typing URLs in by hand? Type:

  http://localhost/cgi-bin/tutorial

and you get a server error message. We can change this by adding the following directive to catalog.cfg:

  SpecialPage catalog index

Restart Interchange and try the above URL again.

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Note: If you want to make the welcome page something other than pages/index.html, modify the 'index' part of the directive appropriately.

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