Then, in any CGI scripts that direct clients to the system administrator, use these environment variables instead of hard coding the administrator's name. UserDir gets the value WWW . There is no real need for this change except to follow the standard used by the Iowa State Public Homepage Server . DirectoryIndex gets the value of homepage.html . Again, this follows the standard set by the Iowa State Public Homepage Server .
Few directories have index.html files.
As stated above in Web server upgrades and announcements , the HTTP server software should be kept up to date. Refer to this section for instructions on the apache-announce mailing list and on upgrading to new versions. The status of the web server should be checked regularly. This can be done using the server-status page . Remember that the status can be viewed only by allowed hosts as described above in Modifying access.conf .