One Page website

[shankle]

Most of the web pages I have seen have multiple pages.

I have one that has ONLY one page.
How do I code the index.html to point to the programs
on the page without creating another page.

I'm not sure I am asking the question correctly.
but the code I have does not work.

An example would be most appreciated.
Regards,
JPS :(

[petezl]

The "Hacking html" site explains these basic commands very well!
http://www.links.net/webpub/html/

Peter.

[tenkey]

If you simply want to be able to jump to a "bookmark" within a page, you create a bookmark with the <a> tag...

<a name="BookMarkName"></a>

Then you link to it with...

<a href="#BookMarkName">...text of link...</a>

[shankle]

What I want to do is have the user be able to click on a label on the screen,
which will take him to the directory where the programs can be downloaded.

So far I have come up with:
<a href="http://gggsoft.com/htdocs/tall">[Tall]</a>

Of course this doesn't work... 

Thanks for the help,
JPS

[arafel]

If I understood correctly, you want some link simply point to a dir containing the files?

<a href="tall/">[Tall]</a>

with a slash after the dir name. where tall is a path relative to the location of index.html.

*web server should be configured to allow direct access to directories. otherwise you'll get access denied error.

[shankle]

Many thanks for the help.

I tried the following and it didn't work.
It gave the "Page not found message"

<a href="http://gggsoft.com/htdocs/tall/">[Tall]</a>

JPS :(

[tenkey]

As arafel pointed out, you also need to do some non-HTML stuff to get it to work. Check with your web host.

[shankle]

Well it just gets deeper.....
In order to enable directory listings, I have to create an ".htaccess" file in  the directory in question and add the following on the site so that users can download files.
I assume that the following code is for Apache. I have no idea how to do this.

          options +Indexes
         
         $ cd www.example.com/htdocs/foo
         $ echo "options +Indexes"> .htaccess

I went up on Jeeves and typed in Apache .htaccess
and got more than I bargained for.

I have a directory called Tall. How do put code in there to allow access
by users?

Thanks for any help,
JPS

[drhowarddrfine]

It might be better to just go to apache.org web site and look at the docs.  I've been using Apache for a while now but never the .htaccess files. 

[arafel]

shankle,

Add "Options +Indexes" line to .htaccess file in required dir. This line means that the current and all sub-directories should be viewable.

         $ cd www.example.com/htdocs/foo
         $ echo "options +Indexes"> .htaccess

Example shows how to do this from a shell, i.e. connect to your account on the server. assuming you are now in htdocs directory (which is default in most cases) type:

cd Tall

you will be switched to Tall dir. than add needed line with:

echo "Options +Indexes" > .htaccess


Or create new text file called .htaccess in notepad, add "Options +Indexes" (without the brackets) and upload it to the Tall dir.

Oh and don't forget to check if at all htaccess usage is enabled on the server...

[shankle]

I thought since you all were so helpful to me that I should tell you how I got this
problem to work so others would not have to go through the same agony.

Purpose: to enable users to reference 4 directories under htdocs on my ISP and be
   able to download them.
1). create a file called ".htaccess" without any (.txt) after it.
     In this file put    Options +Indexes
     This goes under htdocs on the ISP.

2). In the html code I placed the following href statements:
   
       <a href="/tall">{Tall]</a>
       <a href="/blah2">{blah2]</a>
       <a href="/blah3">{blah3]</a>
       <a href="/blah4">{blah4]</a>

This works with the parameters of my ISP.
Maybe it will be different on other ISPs.

JPS :P