Setting Up Your Own Home Page

1. Logon to the computer which is a World Wide Web (WWW) server. At Bucknell this is the machine called coral. If you do not have an account on coral you need to acquire one.

2. Create a directory called "public_html" in your home directory.

   % cd

   % mkdir public_html

3. Move to the new "public_html" directory.

   % cd public_html

4. Copy a sample student home page into your account and call it "index.html". This will be your WWW home page.

   % cp ~hyde/public_html/student-home.html index.html

   [If you are a faculty member, copy ~hyde/public_html/faculty-home.html ]

5. Use your favorite editor, e. g., emacs, to edit the new file index.html and insert information about yourself.

   % emacs index.html

   Note: For help on using the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), read Beginner's Guide to HTML.

6. Finally, you need to make sure:
   • that the index.html file is readable by everyone else;

     % chmod 644 index.html

   • that the public_html directory is readable/executable by everyone else and

     % cd

     % chmod 755 public_html

   • that your home directory is also readable/executable by everyone else.

     % chmod 755 ~

7. Following these steps will set your home page URL to be:

   http://www.bucknell.edu/~youruserid

8. Try out your new home page using Mosaic.