does a subsite need an index.htm page to start up with?

[Guest]

It's unclear in the literature if you point to the subsite or a start page in
the subsite.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

If you have a index page (home page, same as in the root web) in the subweb / subsite, then you can
just link to the folder name (subweb / subsite). If you don't have home page, then you would have to
link to a specific page.

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[Andrew Murray]

Yes, every folder (not necessarily a subsite/subweb) can have a "home" page
like the root folder i.e. index.htm page, else if you view the folder as
http://www.yoursite.com/yourfolder/ it'll check for the presence of an
index.htm page first, and if not found give you a directory listing of all
the files in that folder, unless you have folder browsing permissions set to
Off, then you'll get the 403 Forbidden error, so it is better to have an
index.htm in every folder and/or the folder/file browsing set to off.