Using Advanced Services to Configure Your Web

The Advanced Service of the Personal Web Manager enables you to reconfigure your Web site according to new or changed circumstances. As mentioned earlier in this chapter, you might, for example, need to replace the home page generated by the wizard with a home page of your own design. This is just one possibility of several, all of which are examined in the next sections.

Replacing the Default Home Page in the PWS Home Directory

Before beginning this task, let's briefly examine how home pages and Home Directories behave when accessed by a browser. When a user accesses a site, she usually does so by using one of two basic methods. If she uses a pathname that ends with a filename (such as http://baby/reviews/books.htm), the named page—books.htm, in this example—appears in her browser.