Creating and maintaining web pages
There are now 2 ways to create and maintain your own webpages.
I. The simplest way is to use your FAUNetID account. Go to http://andi.fau.edu/ and log on as employee. Open the Webbrowser view. Web pages that you wish to be viewable by anyone should be stored in the "web" directory. This directory is also found in the 'M' drive on your FAU computer. If you create a file in this directory called "index.html" then it will be viewable in a browser at the following URL: http://home.fau.edu/yourusename/web/index.html. You can create subdirectories within the webdirectory (e.g. http://home.fau.edu/yourusername/web/courses/pos1041/index.html). Faculty are given 100mb of space. More information is available online. Once you create a homepage, contact the webmaster so they may add a link to it on the Honors College faculty pages.
II. The other way to create webpages is much more complicated, but lets you set permissions and have a shorter URL for your homepage.
1. Fill out the FAU Wise Server Account Form. You will be maintaining only new pages (the ones you create), not existing pages, at the following location: wise.fau.edu/~youruserid (the location on the server is wise.fau.edu/export/home/youruserid/www).
2. FAU has a new policy that you must use a secure connection to upload files to the server. You will need to download the required software which you can get at http://www.fau.edu/wise/ssh/
3. You should receive notification from Boca of your web account information. It will consist of a userid and a temporary password. The directory where you will store your web pages should be /export/home/youruserid/www.
4. You may want to change your password. Guard the password because anyone who knows it can modify your web pages. Change your password by using telnet:
Run the telnet program (type "telnet://wise.fau.edu") in the Location area of your browser, or use the telnet software on your computer and connect to wise.fau.edu--check with Mike Hampton if you need this software). Type in your userid for login, and then your temporary password.
To change your password, type passwd and follow instructions. When done, exit telnet by typing logout.
5. Uploading your file using ssh
a. Using ssh secure file transfer program, create a profile:
Host name is wise.fau.edu.
Remote host should be "/export/home/youruserid/www"--this is the directory on FAU's server where your files will be stored. Using a browser, one finds the pages you store here by typing www.fau.edu/~youruserid (or wise.fau.edu/~youruserid).
b. Whenever you create a web page you wish to upload, save it in the folder you designate on your hard drive. To upload it, simply follow the instructions for ssh: you can drag, or right click and use the popup window. If you create sub-folders in the remote directory, be sure that you upload your page to the sub-folder you want it to be in.
c. You now must set permissions. The file you uploaded to the remote directory is there, but no one can see it until you grant people permission to read the file. In ssh, right click the mouse over the file for which you want to set permissions. A pop-up menu appears. Select properties.
Check read, write, execute for the owner (you); and read and execute for group and other.
Never check "write" for other because this would let anyone write over your web pages. But if you don't check read/execute for other, no one can read your web page.
If you create a folder or sub-folder on the remote directory you need to set permissions for it, too.
You only need to set permissions the first time you upload a page or create a folder. Whenever you revise a page there is no need to do this.
d. You should now be able to view your web page.
e. You should call your home page "index.html". You should upload index.html to /export/home/youruserid/www. A common mistake is to put it in the wrong place (eg you put it in /home/youruserid, rather than /home/userid/www). After uploading index.html, you can find it in a web browser by typing the URL "http://www.fau.edu/~youruserid". The file "index.html" is automatically retrieved.
f. Structuring your remote folder.
Suppose you have web pages for multiple courses. One suggestion is to create a folder for each course in your c:\html directory on your hardrive, as well as on your remote directory. FAU REQUIRES THAT ALL URL'S FOR COURSES BE IN LOWER CASES so be sure to do this. Use "pos1041" not "Pos1041," for example. Call your syllabus for the course "index.html" and put it in the folder for the course. Then students type "www.fau.edu/~youruserid/pos1041/" and the syllabus will appear. There are other possibilies. I create a folder called courses, and a subfolder for each individual course. Do whatever works best for you but whatever you choose, you should maintain the same structure on your harddrive as you have on the remote system.
g. Once you have a home page, email the webmaster the URL addresses and a link to it will be put on the Honors college web site.
If you have any questions, email me (tunick@fau.edu).
