Default index files

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great James Tomasino once stated:
> I installed Jetforce on gopher.black tonight and immediately ran into a
> very basic question. What is the _name_ of the default index file? 

  It depends upon the server I would guess.  I don't see why the name of an
index file would be a standard.

> I
> looked through the spec (granted not closely) and didn't see it defined.
> In the end I read through Michael's source for Jetforce and found that
> he's using ".gemini" to override the default file listing and serve an
> index gemini file.

  And I use a file called 'index.gemini', modelled after Apache's
'index.html' file (the name of which is configurable so it doesn't even have
to be that).

> Is that standard? Is there a standard? That seems like a fairly basic
> thing we might want to include. It seems small now, but if a Gemini
> server were to grow large and wanted to change server software that
> could become a big barrier.

  It didn't seem to be a problem with having .htm and .html files.  On my
sever, if a directory contains an index.gemini, it will be served, otherwise
a default page will be constructed.  Addtionally, if a file has an extension
of ".gemini" it will be served up with a MIME type of "text/gemini".  But
that's on my server.  Others may vary.

  -spc (For instance, I've seen ".gmi" used as an extension)