If you include a home page in your web template, the FrontPage Explorer will perform some special handling for the URL. A home page is the default page returned by the web server when a URL that resolves to a web directory is requested, such as “http://example.microsoft.com” or “http://www.microsoft.com/”. A home page is sometimes called a welcome page, such as with the CERN server, or an index page, such as with the NCSA server. The file name that is used for the home page depends on the server and its configuration. The FrontPage Explorer’s template loader will determine the correct index name for your web, and rename any URL called index.htm to the correct index name for your web server. On a CERN server, this might resolve to the name Welcome.html. On a Microsoft Internet Information Server, this might resolve to Default.htm.
If you want to disable this behavior, add an entry to the [info] section of the INF file that looks like this:
NoIndexRenaming=1
If you use the index renaming feature, all links in the web that refer to index.htm will be rewritten to refer to the correct home page name. You should not use the special link ./ (dot-slash) in web templates to refer to the home page, because a browser can only follow that link for pages fetched from a Web server.