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Managing Web Content

As discussed in Chapter 3, every Web site on a server has a home directory. The home directory is the base directory for all documents that the site publishes. Copying files into the home directory, a virtual directory, or any subdirectory of these directories is, in fact, how you publish documents on a Web site.

Documents inherit the default properties of the site and the default permissions of the Windows folder in which they’re placed. You can change these properties and permissions for each individual document or for all documents within a directory.

Caution

Browsers can cache file and directory paths in bookmarks. To prevent ...