Publishing Home Page at UT Austin

This is actually the most challenging part of publishing your home page at UT, because this is when you enter the labyrinth bureaucracy that is the Computation Center. Just follow this handy guide, and perhaps you won't even have to pay them more than one visit!

IF Account* To Publish your Web page at UT Austin, you need an IF (Individually Funded) account, which is an Academic Computing and Instructional Technology Services (ACITS) account that charge you as an individual for use of ACITS computers and network.

* If you have already got an IF account, skip No. 1

1. Open your IF account

• To open a account, go to SMF lab in FAC 212, COM 27 or WCH 1.104 with your valid UT ID. Here is a campus map for SMF, COM or WCH location.
• Get a IF User Number Request Form. You need to check the box for "CCWF UNIX Services" (you can also select "Standard VMS Services" instead of "CCWF UNIX Services") as well as "TELESYS Dial-up Services."
• Bring 5 blank High-Density (1.4 MB) diskettes to FAC 212, and make a copy of "UT Connect" which contain everythng you need for e-mail, Telesys, etc.

2. Add UNIX services (you can choose VMS services)

• In the same IF User Number Request Form, you can add "CCWF UNIX Services" in order to have disk space for creating your own Web pages.
• You need to wait 24 hours or more before you log in.

3. Log in

• ou need to log in at least once to use UNIX services. This login process verifies your Your name, IF User Number, and password, and allows you to change your login name and password.
• You can log in at home through TELESYS, or by using aonther computer on the campus network (UTnet) or on the Internet, such as coumputers in SMF lab.
• You can use "NCSA Telnet" to connect to a UNIX host.
• If you are not familiar with the file, you can find it using "Find File."

(1) Open "NCSA Telnet" and select "Open Special" from "File" menu, and select "CCWF" from "Open special." You will see the following window (Figure 1).

Figure 1

(2) For your first login , type your IF User Number (& "return"), and your orginal password

Figure 2

(3) You can change your login name (Figure 3). You cannot use upper case letters.

Figure 3

(4) You can also change your password. You will be asked to type your new password twice

Figure 4

(5) Later you can change your login password whenever you need to, by typing: man passwd (Figure 5).

Figure 5

(6) Now, you need to wait about 20 minutes before you create your publishing directory.

(7) Select "Quit" from "File" menu.

4. Creating your Publishing Directory

(1) Open "NCSA Telnet" and select "Open Special" from "File" menu, and select "CCWF" from "Opend Special." You will see the window (Figure 1) again. Type your new login name and password.

* If you cannot ifne "CCWF" from "Open Special," select "Open Connection" from "File" menu. Type "piglet.cc.utexas.edu" for "Host/Session Nam." (Figure 6), and then click "Connect" .You will see the window (Figure 1) again. Type your new login name and password. Don't forget hit "return" key after typing login name and password.

Figure 6

(2) Type the following commends after "piglet.cc.utexas.edu%" (Figure 7).

mkdir public_html (& "return")

chmod go+x $HOME (& "return")

chomd go+rx $HOME/public_html (& "return")

chmod go+r * (& "retrun")

Figure 7

• Later, you may need to learn basic UNIX to add, change, move your files.
• Or, you can use "Fetch" (see No. 6) if you feel UNIX commends are difficult.

5. Creating you Web Pages

• Even though you can use HTML editors when creating your Web pages, you'd better learn basic HTML.
• Important! Make sure to name your home page file index.html.
• Later, you can add another files, and link them from this index.html file.

6. Putting your files in your publishing directory you created

• To put this file or more files in your public_html directory, you can use "Telnet."
• For beginners, it may be easier to use "Fetch" (if you are not familiar with this file, find it using "Find File").

(1) Open "Fetch" file, and select "New Connection" from "File" menu. You may see the window similar to Figure 8.

(2) Type host name, User ID, Password, and Directory (Figure 8). If you have changed your orginal User ID (= IF User Number) or/and Password, you need to use your new User ID or/and new Password. If you don't know the directory, leave it blank (it will take a little lognger). Click "OK."

* Host: ccwf.cc.utexas.edu User ID: jin Password: pass1234 Directory: /home/ccwf/if/ifhg/jin/public_html

* For User ID, type your new User ID instead of "jin".

* For Password, type your new Password instead of "pass1234" (it will not be shown in the box).

* For Directory, you need to change "ifhg" to your IF directory, and "jin" to your User ID.

Figure 8

* If you configure Fetch, it automatically connects to your publishing directory whenever you open "Fetch."

(3) Now you will see the following window (Figure 9). Click "Put File" to upload your Home Page file from your disk or your computer.

* Before you click on "Put File," make sure that your in correct directory ("public_html" fold in your directory fold).

(4) Select your file from your disk or your computer, and click "Open."

* The file name should be "index.html" .

(5) Now you have your Home Page file in a UNIX host.

Figure 9

* If you want to load multiple files at a time, select "Put Folders and Files" from the "Remote" menu.

* For text files (or .map files), select "text" in the Format box, then click "OK."

* For graphic (.gif or .Jpeg) files, select "raw data" in the Format box, then click "OK."

7. Testing your Home Page

(1) Open "Netscape Navigator™."

(2) Type your Home Page URL into Location box (The name "Location" will change to "Go To"). You need to type your own directory you created instead of "~jin". If you cannot see the location box, pull down the "Options" menu and select "Show Location."

e.g., http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jin/

* Make usre put "~" before your directory name.

(3) Congratulation! Now you can see your home page on the Web.

8. Editing your Home Page using "Fetch" application>

(1) Adding new files into your directory:

select a new file from your disk and click "Put File"

(see Figure 9)

(2) Deleting old files from your directory:

select a file from your directory in a UNIX host and Pull down "Remote" menu and select "Delete Directory or File.."

(see Figure 9)

(3) Copying files from your directory or other directories you can access:

select a file from a directory in a UNIX host and click "Get File"

(see Figure 9)

9. For more information call at 475-9210.>