Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 21:47:52 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 21:05:08 GMT Content-length: 1910 Automaticly indexed documents

Automatically Indexed Documents

The Web server runs a script three times a day to check for HTML files with special names in people's home directories. If these files exist, they are linked into master lists for easy accessibility. The auto-indexed pages currently include:

``Home'' or ``signature'' pages

Directories of Computer Sciences Faculty and Research Staff, Graduate Students, and Undergraduate Majors are automatically generated. Links to home pages are included for every file with the name ~username/public/html/username.html in the AFS filesystem. (This isn't true yet. Currently only those accounts that fit into the above lists are indexed. We will be adding a catch-all ``other'' list soon.)

Remember that our server translates ~username to ~username/public/html, so the URL for user Joe's homepage, for example, would be http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~joe/joe.html, even though it is stored in the filesystem at ~joe/public/html/joe.html.

Class pages

Pages for classes are looked for in two places. The first is any file matching the pattern ~cs(course_number)-(section)/public/html/cs(course_number).html. The second is any with the same name, but in the course instructor's account instead of the course account. The second form is the only one available to cs302 instructors.