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Creating a Personal Web Page

To create a personal web page accessible through the CISE Department Web Server, follow these instructions.

Note: This document assumes the reader has sufficient knowledge of HTML to create a valid page. For further information, consult NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML.

  1. Create a directory named public_html in your directory (.i.e ~/public_html). This directory will contain all your hypertext documents written in HTML.
    • Make sure the directory is at least executable by the group and others (i.e. drwx--x--x or drwxr-xr-x).
    • Your home directory must be at least executable by the group and others (i.e. drwx--x--x or drwxr-xr-x)
    For more information about directory and file permissions, you can consult the manpage for the chmod command.
  2. In this ~/public_html directory, create a file called index.html. Edit this file as you wish, but please try to use proper HTML. (Note: Other index types are permitted, but you don't need to worry about them yet.)
  3. Make sure this file (and all others you reference) is readable by the group and others (i.e. -rw-r--r--). To do this, type:
    chmod 711 ~
    chmod 755 ~/public_html
    chmod 644 ~/public_html/index.html
    
    You will need to type:
    chmod 644 [file]
    
    for any other files that you create in your ~/public_html directory.
  4. The URL for your home page will be simply
        http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~USERNAME/
    
    where USERNAME is your username.

Once created, the system should include your page in the list of CISE Users within 24 hours.

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