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The following are complete instructions and illustrations on what
you need to do to be able to start putting your own documents on
the web.
- The first thing you need to do is send e-mail to help@math.bu.edu
and ask the people who respond to this mail to create a directory
for you where you can store your web files. Help will reply to
you when they have set this up. Once they have replied to your
request, you can move on to the following steps.
- The directory that has been created for you will be located
in: /other/www/ INDIVIDUAL/. In this directory, you will notice
a subdirectory that resembles your login name. This subdirectory
is where you will store all of your web files. It will be your
Web directory. You need to use the cd command to get to
this directory. If I wanted to get to my web directory, this is
what I would type:
math larock % cd /other/www/INDIVIDUAL/larock
- In your Web directory, there should already be a default file
which gets loaded when someone wants to look at your Web page.
This default file is called index.html. This is the
file that you will need to modify to change the appearance of
your home page. It is also the file which uses the HTML syntax.
It may look similar to the example in the previous section.You
can use the emacs or vi editors to change your Web pages.
- Once you are familiar with the HTML syntax you may want to
create more files in your web directory. However, in order for
people all over the world to be able to read your Web files, you
must give them permission to do so. You can accomplish this by
using the chmod command. For example, I would need to
use the cd command to get to my web directory, and then
use the chmod command to change the file permissions on
the document called web-document.html.
math larock % cd /other/www/INDIVIDUAL/larock
math larock % chmod a+r web-document.html
This chmod command says to give everyone in the world
read access to the file called web-document.html.
- If you have Web documents that are in your home directory and
you want to put them in your Web directory, you will need to copy
them to there. You can do this with the cp command. If
my web-document.html file was in my home directory and I wanted
to copy it to my Web directory, here is what I would type to get
it there:
math larock % cp web-document.html /other/www/INDIVIDUAL/larock/web-document.html
- Now you are ready to test to see that you can really read your
documents from the web. If you are using one of the math machines
using the UNIX operating system, type the following:
math larock % netscape &
Once Netscape is running, you will need to get to the Individuals
page, which is currently http://math.bu.edu/INDIVIDUAL.
Then find your home page and see what happens!
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