Unix 8 -- Web Pages on math

Math 10/61 -- D. C. Smolarski, S.J.
Santa Clara University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

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Web Pages

The standard place for storing and registering homepages at Santa Clara University is on the DEC Alpha mainframe, called SCUACC. Every Santa Clara student may obtain an account on SCUACC. Further information can be found via the Math 10 homepage about the details of creating and storing homepages on the Alpha, along with links about creating homepages via HTML.

Note that the Alpha uses the VMS operating system which has significant differences from Unix. However, many commands are very similar to Unix or DOS commands and the editor emacs is available for editing files.

Users with accounts on math may publish web pages. All such pages must be in a directory called /public_html (or any of its subdirectories) which a user must create via the mkdir command. This directory should be given the protection 644 (via the chmod command) along with every file in it. In addition, the user's own directory needs to have its protection changed.

To change your own directory protection (to allow others to read those files which are given the proper "world" protection), follows these steps (assume your username is jdoe): 

    cd
    cd ..
    chmod 701 jdoe
    cd
    cd public_html
    chmod 644 *
Each time a new file is created in the public_html directory, its protection should be checked to see whether it is readable by the "world."

The URL for file homepage.html owned by use jdoe would then be: 

     http://math.scu.edu/~jdoe/homepage.html

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This page is maintained by Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J. dsmolarski@math.scu.edu
© Copyright 1998, 1999 Dennis C. Smolarski, SJ, All rights reserved.
Last changed: 14 April 1999.