This page allows you to configure document service on your server. This includes letting the server know where to find your documents and letting it know where your home page is. Within your document root, you will probably have several subdirectories each containing similar items. For example, you may create one directory called products, another directory called people, and perhaps many others. It's often helpful to allow clients to access an overview of these directories.

There are two ways the server does this. It first searches the directory for an index file, often called index.html, which is a file you create and maintain with an overview of the directory's contents. For example, the index file in products may have a page with small pictures of all the products, with links to various files in the directory next to them. You can specify the index files that the server looks for here, by listing the filenames in a comma separated list.

If the index files are not found, the server then generates an index file for you. You have the option of choosing:

When users first look at your server, they usually access a URL such as http://www.acme.com/. When Netsite receives a request for this document, it returns a special document, known as a home page. Usually this file has general information about your server, and perhaps some links to other sections of the server.

You can either specify a special file in the document root as the home page, or the server will an index file instead. When a document is sent to a client, the server includes a section that identifies the document's type for the client, so that the client knows what to do with it. However, sometimes the server can't determine the proper type for the document. In those cases, a default value is sent, which you can set here.