Default Pages

Default Pages. Equivalent to /

Web servers usually have a direct mapping from the URL requested by the visitor to the file that is loaded by the server OS.  A URL of 'www.bobsfruitsite.com/catalog/apple.html' is represented on the server by a file named 'apple.html' contained within a directory named 'catalog'

It's unrealistic to expect a visitor to always remember the complete URL with filename as shown above. A visitor expects to enter www.bobsfruitsite.com and see a home page. The web server somehow needs to map this request to a specific file to be returned. It does this through the concept of a default page. For Apache servers this is usually either index.html or index.htm. For IIS this is default.htm or default.asp. The default page is specified as a list of files that the server attempts to load, trying each file name in turn and finally returning a '404 page not found' error if no match. The list is contained in the web server configuration settings.

ClickTracks needs to match pages on the website to file names in the logfile. For the home page of www.bobsfruitsite.com it needs to know the corresponding file name that appears in the log.

The standard set of default pages for Apache, IIS and iPlanet servers is predefined in ClickTracks and automatically configured during initial logfile analysis. You may need to modify the standard settings if:

Enter a list of default pages identical to those listed in your server configuration, separated by commas.

Alternate Domain Names