Creating and Activating Your Own Home Page

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Creating and Activating Your Own Home Page

Your Existing 'Homepage'

When you recieved your email account on the Glooscap server, you were also given a directory (home directory) on that server. You have the rights to add files to that directory and its subdirectories. One subdirectory already exists called html-public. In that directory is a file called index.html. This is your temporary internet home page and you may examine it right now by going to the URL

http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~your-username/

Your user name is the name that the server uses to identify you. When you contact the server directly (more later) you will use your user name. The name that you use for your email may be an alias and not your user name. The name of your home directory is the same as your user name.

The http program that is running on the Glooscap server to service http requests knows that when the tilda (~) is in front of a name, to look in the subdirectory 'html-public' for the Web page. If no page is specified after ~username/ then it lo oks for the file index.html.

Creating New HTML Document(s)

An HTML document such as index.html is basically a simple text file with special 'tags' inserted to identify formating and linking to take place when the document is imported by a brower program such as Netscape. You can write html documents wit h any word processor or editor if you know the html mark-up language. There are many HTML text editors that will place the proper tags for you and there are some WYSIWYG editors that do not require any knowledge of HTML language.
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You should learn to writer html documents, obtain an html editor, then put together your own homepage. One easy way to create a page is to modify an existing one. Your own index.html might be a good one to start with. All of your work should be done on your own computer before moving it to the server.

Testing your pages on your Computer

Your newly created page can be tested on your computer by running Netscape or your favorite browser with your winsock running and import your file into your browser. The Glooscap server is a UNIX system and the filename extension is .html while on an MS-DOS or Windows 3.1 system it must be .htm. Use *.html in the anchors and your testing will work then and later on the UNIX system.

Putting your pages on the Server

You must transfer your final page(s) to the UNIX using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for which there are programs available. Be sure to put it in your html-public sub-directory. You must also make the file accessible to those who what to read it with their browser. In order to be sure of this you must Telnet to the Gloosap Server and use a Unix command.

There is a UNIX command that grants permissions for reading, writing, and executing a file. For a file called index.html you would use:

chmod 664 index.html

Once this is done, you can logout of Glooscap and test your pages remotely.

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