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From: Brian Handy <handy@condor.physics.montana.edu>
To: Dale Benzer <ipc1@tribeca.ios.com>
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Subject: Re: Apache startup Page
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> Can anyone tell me where in the conf files I can designate a page to 
> automatically load when users access my apache server? Right now, 
> they just get an index. 

In srm.conf, you should have a line similar to:

DirectoryIndex welcome.html

--where "welcome.html" is the default file to load when a directory is 
specified.  There may be other ways to handle this...but I just have a 
"welcome.html" file in my httpd docs top directory.

Happy Trails,

Brian