GoHTTP: Your own home page

Your own home page

The sample filter can be used to serve files such as HTML documents, images, and so on, without any changes or programming. All you need to do is change the data files.

Here's what you need to do to set up your own 'home page', given that the sample page above works:

Make a new directory for your own World-Wide Web data (for example, called D:\WWWHOME).
Copy the file D:\GOHTTP\INDEX.HTM to your new directory, and modify it to make your 'home page'. To start with, to see if it works, it's probably best to change a few words only. For example, change the line
```
  Welcome to this sample home page.
```
to something different.
If you leave any references in it to any of the other sample files, you'll need to copy those over, too, for the links to work.
If GoServe is not already running, start it as before (don't forget the 'HTTP' parameter, if starting from a command prompt).
Choose 'Directory selection' from the 'Options' menu, and use the dialog there to change the data directory to be your new directory (for example, to D:\WWWHOME).
Try your favourite WWW client, connecting to your machine as before, and it should now display your new home page.
All you have to do now is modify the home page to your liking. Most of the tags needed (<h1> indicates Header level 1, etc.) are quite simple to use, but you'll probably want to find an introduction to the tag language (HTML, the HyperText Markup Language). A good place to start is the Web "home" at CERN: http://info.cern.ch/

All of the details above can be customized if you wish, but you will probably need to learn more about GoServe and Rexx to change things effectively. Please see GOSERVE.DOC for more information.

This document, the latest GoServe package, and other relevant links, information, and programs are available at the GoServe Web page at http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/goserve/

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