Making your own Home Page

Follow these instructions to make your own home page:
NOTE: substitute your username wherever you see mine (haim). Your home directory has to be world readable in order for you to have a www home page (the second step below will take care of this). However, you may want to make sure that the files and directories in your home directory have the permissions you want them to, because after step 2 below, everyone will have read permission on your home directory.
  1. cd
  2. chmod 755 .
  3. mkdir public_html
  4. chmod 755 public_html
  5. Add this line to your .cshrc or .tcshrc
    setenv WWW_HOME http://www.cs.uml.edu/~haim/
  6. cd public_html
  7. Create a file called index.html. This is your home page. It can be read from a browser by opening the URL http://www.cs.uml.edu/~haim. This document should be formatted using the html commands.
  8. chmod 755 index.html

Examples

The following are some local examples of home pages. To view their source, you can either log into one of the systems and look at the files directly (look in ~username/public_html) or can load them in a browser and view their source using "View Source..." from the browser's fileor view menu.
NOTE: all files referenced by as browser, whether it be from you or from someone else must have WORLD read access. If they do not, you will get an error like this: 

  403 Forbidden

  Your client does not have permission to get URL /~haim/index.html from
  this server.

Dr. Haim Levkowitz

haim@cs.uml.edu

UMass Lowell Department of Computer Science