Determining the URL of your File

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Creating Web Pages--Faculty

Figuring out the URL of your file

Once you have published your web pages anyone who knows their URLs (or web addresses) can browse them. Thus, to publicize your pages to others, you need to understand the relationship between file names and URLs on the College web server.

Files on the "www" volume on "webpublish.haverford.edu"

If you posted pages on the webpublish.haverford.edu volume, www, the URL will match the directory path and file name. For example, the URL for a file on www in the folder "dept" named "filename.html" is

http://www.haverford.edu/dept/filename.html

If you post the same file in the subfolder of "dept", named "subfolder", the URL is

http://www.haverford.edu/dept/subfolder/filename.html

The folder names are just listed sequentially, separated by slashes. You can link to this URL from other pages.

Files on the "wwwinternal" volume on "webpublish"

Posting pages on the webpublish.haverford.edu volume, wwwinternal, will give you a similar URL, but you will need to specify the port 8080. For example, the URL for a file on wwwinternal in the folder "dept" named "filename.html" is

http://www.haverford.edu:8080/dept/filename.html

If you move the same file into a subfolder of "dept", named "subfolder", the URL is

http://www.haverford.edu:8080/dept/subfolder/filename.html

Special File Names--Index files

Some files, called index files, will display by default, when no file name is specified. This allows you to publicize a simplified URL. A complete list of these file names is listed in the section on File Naming. Our preferred index file name is welcome.html.

For example, the URL for a file on www in the folder "dept" named "welcome.html" is

http://www.haverford.edu/dept/welcome.html

or simply

http://www.haverford.edu/dept

Likewise, if you move the same file into a subfolder of "dept", named "subfolder", the URL is

http://www.haverford.edu/dept/subfolder

If you put the file on wwwinternal in the folder "dept" the URL is

http://www.haverford.edu:8080/dept