Creating pages in your personal web space

You must meet the following criteria in order to create pages in your personal web space that will be viewable on the world wide web:

  1. Create your desired pages using the web editor of your choice. (Note: DOIT only supports Netscape Composer as an editor, therefore we can only answer questions regarding that editor.)
  2. When you have finished editing your page, choose File > Save As and navigate to your L: drive > public_html folder. Save the file as "filename.html" where filename is something relevant to the content of the document. For example, if you're creating a list of your publications, publications.html would be a good choice.
  3. The page is now in your public_html folder and is available under the URL http://www.engr.uga.edu/~username/ where "~" (tilde) is the character on the upper left key on your keyboard and "username" is the name you use to login to hoth. If you have created a file called publications.html and your login name is tgill, then that would be available under http://www.engr.uga.edu/~tgill/publications.html (Hint: if you create a file named index.html, that will be the default page for the directory; i.e., you don't have to specify that page name in the browser address.)
  4. If you browse to that address and receive an access error, you need to change the permissions on either the file, the public_html directory or both. Click here for information on changing permissions.
  5. Finally, notify DOIT with the URL of any pages you wish to link on your faculty page.

If you have any specific questions, DOIT <support@engr.uga.edu> will be glad to answer them.

Last modified: February 1, 2001

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