Creating a new home page – Axis Communications 250S User Manual

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AXIS 250S User’s Manual

Customizing The AXIS 250S

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

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

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

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