Installing Your Home Page on Your RCI or ICI Account


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Introduction

Account holders on the OIT RCI and ICI (Eden) systems can now create their own pages for the World Wide Web. For instructions on how to create your page see Publishing for the World Wide Web. If you've already created a web page, this document will tell you how to install that page on your RCI or ICI account.

Installation

  1. If the page-to-be isn't already on your RCI or ICI account, use FTP to copy it to your account. Simple instructions for using FTP may be found below.

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  2. Issue the following UNIX commands while in your home directory. 

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    mkdir public_html
    chmod a+rx public_html
     

  3. Check the protection of your public_html subdirectory with the following command:

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    ls -ld public_html

    If the protection does not read drwxr-xr-x, you should reissue the command

    chmod a+rx public_html
     

  4. Transfer your edited home page template into the public_html directory and rename it as index.html. If you have it in your main directory, the command is 

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    mv pagefile public_html/index.html

    where pagefile is the name you've given the template while editing it. 
     

  5. Check the protection of your index.html file with the following commands:

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    cd public_html
    ls -l index.html

    If the protection does not read -rw-r--r--, you should give everyone read access to the file with the command

    chmod 644 index.html
     

  6. People can access your home page via the URL 

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    http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~username
    http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~username

    where username is your username on RCI or Eden. 
     

  7. As you learn more about HTML and the World Wide Web, you may modify your home page (the public_html/index.html file) as you will. Remember that you have a limited amount of diskspace available to you on RCI or Eden. Your pages may be as elaborate as you like, but you may not exceed your allotted diskspace. 

FTP Example Instructions

You probably have an FTP program on your desktop machine. If you have a Windows system, go to the Start button, go to Run, and type

ftp ftp.rci.rutgers.edu
ftp ftp.eden.rutgers.edu

If you're using a Macintosh, start NCSA Telnet and Open an FTP session to ftp.rci.rutgers.edu or ftp.eden.rutgers.edu.

Then log in with your regular username and password. To put a single file onto the system, type

put filename

To put multiple files, use mput and some appropriate wildcard. For example,

mput *.html

will put all files ending in .html.

Some users prefer to use a graphical FTP program such as WS_FTP. This software can be downloaded for free within the University Network from the MSSG FTP Site, or purchased on a CD from the Help Desk's CD Software Program.



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03/13/02