<OT> webpage index

[Ken Moffat]

Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Thanks in advance for help with this.
>
> Consider a URL with a directory like this:
>
> http://www.a_website.com/a_directory
>
> Without knowing that a directory exists with the name a_directory, or 
> the names of files, html pages, whatever within a_directory, is it 
> possible for anyone to actually see these files, html pages, whatever 
> or to know that they exist?
>
> I suppose that this is the same as asking "how does Google know that a 
> page exists (especially without any "keywords" in the page)?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
caveat: no expert.

but I believe as long as you have an index.html in the www.a_website.com
root directory the directory index will not be shown, so the directories
will not be shown. I think google goes to the website address, and sees
the index.html contents, then just follows links from there.

If your web server is set up for php, this also applies to index.php, I
think.

Ken