Create a Web Home Page

These instructions will help you create a www home page that will be readable via www.cs.cmu.edu. I hope to write up a little perl script sometime in the next few days that will do all this and a bit more, so if you'd prefer to wait for that you can. I'll send mail to the new students when that's ready.

Make your web directory and set appropriate permissions:
```
mkdir /afs/cs/user/`whoami`/www
cd /afs/cs/user/`whoami`/www
fs setacl -dir . -acl system:anyuser read -acl wwwsrv:http-ftp read
fs setacl -dir .. -acl system:anyuser l -acl wwwsrv:http-ftp l
cp /afs/cs/Web/.htaccess .
```
(The second setacl command gives global "lookup" access to your afs home directory. This means anyone can list the contents of your home directory, but not (necessarily) read the files in that directory.)

Make a copy of the template home page:

cp /afs/cs/user/dkindred/www/ic96/template.html index.html

Create a link to your web directory in Web/People:
```
ln -s `pwd` /afs/cs/Web/People/`whoami`
```
Create a ~/.www.home.url file pointing to your home page:
```
echo "www/index.html" > ../.www.home.url
```
Edit the index.html file to taste, being sure to replace all occurrences of "bovik" and "Harry Bovik".

You're done! You can advertise your home page to people outside CMU CS as either of these:

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/<userid>/
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~<userid>/

People within CMU CS should link to

  /afs/cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/<userid>/index.html

For more details about offering web pages through www.cs.cmu.edu, see the "exporting pages" information.

If you are considering setting up a web server on a CMU SCS machine, be sure to read this information on server-maintainer responsibilities first.

Darrell Kindred

Last modified: Mon Sep 23 11:34:53 EDT 1996