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AXIS 250S User’s Manual Customizing The AXIS 250S
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Creating a New Home Page
Having created and stored your new custom Web pages in product memory, proceed to
assign one of these pages as your default Home page in the AXIS 250S, as described below:
Caution!
1. Start a new ftp session to the AXIS 250S, by entering:
2. Type
bin
3. Navigate your way to the appropriate directory, entering:
4. Fetch the
boa.conf file, by typing:
5. Edit
boa.conf with a text editor (Notepad is not recommended) and add the following
line to the end of the file:
This will create an alias to your own “homemade”
index.html file stored in the
/etc/httpd/html/ directory and redirect access to it. Replace the edited boa.conf in
the video server, by using the
Put command.
Note: As an alternative to the above, you might like to edit the line starting with Document Root so
that it points directly to the local directory. However, after doing this you will then be unable to
access the original Home pages - so be warned!
6. After making these changes, you will not be able to automatically access the default
index page. Instead you must type in the complete URL to access it:
or
, if PTZ is enabled:
Adding a new Web page to your AXIS 250S is not something that should be undertaken lightly. Remem-
ber: Axis does not support the personalization of product Web pages and strongly recommends that
inexperienced users DO NOT
perform such modifications.
ftp <server ip address >
cd /etc/httpd/conf/
get boa.conf
Alias /index.html /etc/httpd/html/index.html
Alias / /etc/httpd/html
http://IP#/view/index.shtml
http://IP#/view/ptzFrame.shtml