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Creating a Personal Web Page

Eligibility

The Department runs it's own WWW server: www.cs.arizona.edu. Computer Science majors and alumni are eligible to have web pages hosted on the departmental server. All non-CS majors are eligible to have their personal webpages hosted through CCIT.

All webpage content must conform to the Department's Appropriate Use policy, e.g., no risqué pictures, no commercial enterprises, etc. We reserve the right to restrict attractive nuisances. If you create a Star Trek page that is so good that the world beats a path to your door, and our server is impacted by the load, we may ask you to move it elsewhere. Also you should limit your disk consumption to 10 MB.

Getting Started:

As of December 1, 2004 your status as a CS major now includes a webpage area automatically:

URL = http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/<username>
directory = /cs/www/people/<username>

As the directory is located in http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/ you should be able to access it from most departmental Unix hosts by typing:

cd /cs/www/people/<username>

If you use a Windows system, connect through the Samba server:

Windows = My Network Place / Entire Newtork / Microsoft Windows Network / Csc / Samba Server (Samba) / www_people / <username>

A CGI account for scripts supporting your web pages is also created automatically.

In order for pages to be visible to the public, the permissions must be set to read access for others. The command for this is:

chmod o+r file.html

The directory must allow search access to others (chmod o+x). These permissions will be preset on your index.html file, but you must change them on any additional files you create.

To see your web pages, type:

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/<username>

in the Location bar on Netscape or the Address bar on Explorer.

Registry

To add your home page to the Computer Science Department's list of Student Web Pages, along with a link to your index page, send email to webmaster@cs.arizona.edu requesting such listing.

Advice

There is a huge amount of information available on the construction of web pages. See, for example, the list maintained by Yahoo. You can also find books in most bookstores. An excellent style manual is available from Yale.

Last updated Monday, 07-Jan-2008 09:32:28 MST, by John Luiten
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