WWW
Help:
How
to Make a Web Page
Introduction
UTK's UNIX users can create documents in their home areas that are
accessible through the World Wide Web, a hypertext multimedia protocol.
These documents are made available through a WWW server at the address:
web.utk.edu. Through these hypertext documents, users can make text,
images and sounds available to users throughout the Internet.
Creating
The Page Automatically
To create a home page, you must create a new directory in your home
area called "public_html" and a file in that directory
called "default.html". Execute the setup command make_wwwhome,
the directory and file will be created for you with the correct
access permissions automatically. This file will contain examples
of how to use hypertext to format text and create links to other
documents, images, sounds and so on. If you do not wish to use this
script, follow the tips below for manually creating the required
files.
Creating
the Page Manually
To allow the WWW server to read files in your home area, enter the
command chmod
711 ~userid replacing "userid" with your
UNIX username. You must also create a directory called "public_html"
in your home area with group and world permissions for reading and
execution. To do this, go to your home directory using the command
cd and execute the command mkdir
public_html to create the directory, next set the
permissions by typing:
chmod 755 public_html.
Editing
The Page
Now that the directories are setup it is time to start to edit that
first page. To do that change into the new directory cd
public_html and edit the file default.html. The file,
default.html, is the one displayed when someone goes to http://web.utk.edu/~username.
Any text editor will work to edit your HTML files, examples include
pico, emacs, vi, dtpad. If you wish to create your web pages on
a PC FTP them into the public_html directory when finished. Help
with FTPing can be found here.
Getting
To Your Page
Once your page is created, users can access it via any hypertext
browser at the URL: http://web.utk.edu/~userid. Userid being your
UNIX username.
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