How to create your own WWW homepage

It's easy to create your own World Wide Web homepage that others can access. All you need to do is create a world-accessible directory called WWW in your home directory. For example, you can use the following commands (the % in these examples indicates your Unix prompt):

% cd ~ (make sure you are in your home directory)
% mkdir WWW (create a directory called WWW)
% chmod a+rx (make the directory world readable)

Note: Your home directory must be world readable.

Then put world readable hypertext (*.html) files in that directory. For a user smith the file index.html would have the following address:

http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~smith/index.html

or, if you specify a directory and it contains index.html, that file will be loaded automagically. So, you can refer to it simply as:

http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~smith

In fact, we recommend that you do create an index.html so that our automated software will add you to our list of people in the department. It runs every night a 3:30AM.


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Last mangled: 4 November 2007