Setting up your Web Account

Making web pages (html documents) available to others on the World Wide Web consists of creating the document, placing it in the proper location, then adjusting the permissions on the document (and directories containing it) so the webserver can access them.

Our our server you must setup your account Once and only Once as outlined in this document. It involves created a public web area and then transfering up any web pages you create and associated content like images and video, etc. (unlike word documents they are separate) to this special web area in your account.

Creating Your Public Web Area (do only once for your account)

You must create a directory in your home directory called public_html and give your home directory and this new directory the proper permissions. It is within this directory that the webserver will look for resources whose resource address begins with /~yourlogin.

Using SSH applicaiton'sShell Session to Connect and create public_html directory

1) YOU MUST FIRST CONNECT TO YOUR SERVER (i.e. puzzle.sci.csueastbay.edu) USING A TOOL LIKE SSH (see course outline for tips on how to connect to a remote machine using ssh). VIDEO ON CONNECTING WITH SSH

Once you connect you will see the following (or similar) interface ....your prompt will be different.

This is called a Secure Shell

2) Type in exactly as shown the following commands after you have logged into your account

cd                        
mkdir public_html
chmod 755 .
chmod 755 public_html
      

Putting a WebPage on your Web Server

Once you have created a webpage(s) you need to transfer it up to your public_html directory.

Option 1 = with SSH application           Option 2= with Dreamweaver application

We have a video showing this using ssh and on our outline we also show you how to do this with Dreamweaver (see our outline and the section on dreamweaver that also contains videos) when you get to that part of the class.

Accessing our Homepage

To access our document, a World Wide Web user has only to fetch the following URL with their browser:

     http://puzzle.csueastbay.edu/~yourlogin

The public_html directory need never appear in a URL. The webserver knows to look in your public_html directory whenever ~yourlogin appears in a URL.

Summary

To post a webpage on ebox, you must

• ONLY ONCE Create a directory called public_html within your home directory.
• Give that directory as well as your home directory permissions 755.
• Place your webpages (XHTML documents) into your public_html directory.
• Give your files as well as any image/media files associated with it permissions 755.