http://www.cs.wisc.edu/docs/automatic.html
Automaticly indexed documents
Automatically Indexed Documents
The Web server runs a script three times a day to check for HTML files with
special names in people's home directories. If these files exist, they are
linked into master lists for easy accessibility. The auto-indexed pages
currently include:
``Home'' or ``signature'' pages
Directories of Computer Sciences
Faculty and Research Staff,
Graduate Students, and
Undergraduate Majors are
automatically generated. Links to home pages are included for
every file with the name
~username/public/html/username.html in the
AFS filesystem. (This isn't true
yet. Currently only those accounts that fit into the above lists are
indexed. We will be adding a catch-all ``other'' list soon.)
Remember that our server translates ~username to
~username/public/html, so the URL for user Joe's homepage,
for example, would be http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~joe/joe.html, even
though it is stored in the filesystem at ~joe/public/html/joe.html.
Class pages
Pages for classes are looked for
in two places. The first is any file
matching the pattern ~cs(course_number)-(section)/public/html/cs(course_number).html. The second is any with the same name,
but in the course instructor's account instead of the course account. The
second form is the only one available to cs302 instructors.