Submitting homework on the Web

• create a sub-directory named, say, xxx in your root directory. This is done by typing mkdir xxx when you are in the root directory. By the way, xxx is just a name placeholder. Pick a name and send email to the TA's informing them about the name you have chosen. Assign read perimission to this directory by typing the command fs sa xxx system:anyuser rl. This sets read access to the web directory. If you have named your web directory as www, this is all you need to do to serve files in this directory using the contrib server. In other words, you should supply the URL as http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/youruserid/filename.html.

• However, the contrib server is not very reliable. If you need to use the computer science web server, you need to do the following.
  1. Assign read permission to your root directory. This is done using fs sa xxx system:anyuser rl. Note that by doing this your root directory contents can be read by all. However, to use the CS server you will need to do this.
  2. Create a file called .anonr in your root directory. This file should contain the line xxx in it. You now have a directory that is accessible over the Web using the CS server.

• Complete your homework and mark it up using HTML. HTML is easy to learn. A HTML primer is available here . Popular wordprocessing packages also support templates that allow HTML markup. You can also create the document on andrew using an editor such as emacs. Name the file hw1.html. In future, the name will hwn.html where n is the number of the homework.

• Issue the pwd command, and send the TA email informing him about the pathname to your file. Your email should be sent by class time on the date that it is due. We will not accept any homework that is turned in late.

• The TA's will grade and provide feedback.

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