Creating a WWW Homepage
Creating a WWW homepage can be both a challenging and fun activity.
Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh provides this capability only to people at its
school sites. There are a number of steps you must go through to do this.
First, take a look at the acceptable
use policy on creating homepages.
- You will be creating your homepage on your school's server.
Telnet to your school's server . Once you are logged in
you will be in your home directory. You will need to create a
sub-directory that will contain all of your html documents. The
sub-directory must be titled www. To do this type:
mkdir
www
- The second step is to change the permissions on your account so that
outsiders can read your homepage. This must occur for others to access any work
you do in html. At the unix prompt carefully type the following
commands:
chmod a+x ~
This command changes the permission at the top level of your account,
allowing users to execute files in your directory.
chmod a+rx ~/www
This command changes the permission in the www/ sub-directory to allow
users to both read and execute file in this directory.
- You must now go into the www directory that you created
earlier. To go into the www directory:
cd www
- Create a file using a text editor. The name of your homepage file
must be home.html This file must reside in your www directory.
You can reach your homepage online via lynx, netscape, mosaic
or some other viewer.
The address for reaching homepages on CK:P servers
uses the following syntax:
http://servername.school.pps.pgh.pa.us/~name/
For example, a teacher by the name of Zinga at Woolslair E.S. would have the
following home page address:
http://hermia.woolslair.pps.pgh.pa.us/~zinga/
A teacher by the name of Fougeres at Schenley H.S. would have the
following home page address:
http://sparta.schenley.pps.pgh.pa.us/~fougeres/
Help for Creating Homepages