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Output file

This field contains the filename and, optionally, the filesystem path to which Movable Type should publish an index template. If a relative path is used, it is relative to the blog's Site Root directory.

Examples

In the following examples, SITE_ROOT represents the blog's site root directory:

Output file value Publishes to...
index.html SITE_ROOT/index.html
css/p/menu.css SITE_ROOT/css/p/menu.css
../../otherblog/blog.inc.php SITE_ROOT/../../otherblog/blog.inc.php
/var/www/htdocs/blog/index.html /var/www/htdocs/blog/index.html

In the third example above, the '..' is geekspeak for the parent directory. So in English, that output file value means:

"Write the published file for this index template out to blog.inc.php in the directory otherblog which is two directory levels above SITE_ROOT"

Represented visually, it would be:

grandparent/
    otherblog/
        blog.inc.php
    parent/
        SITE_ROOT/

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