I have a host (moot point). I have a domain, url-forwarded to that host, say www.somedomain.com/somefile.htm (http://www.somedomain.com/somefile.htm) - a file on that host, in the /www directory.

Does the url-forwarded domain *need* the index.htm? (Say, if none of its files *references* the index.htm?)

In other words, is index.htm accessed "on the way down the path"? (I have it coded as if it were, but maybe it need not be...)

Reason I ask is, at the moment, I have "two sites in one" (sloppy work, yes...but economical until I get separate sites set up...) and I didn't want to mess with index.htm for fear of interfering with the other (main, "owning") site's accessibility.