How To Create A Home Page Basic Requirements = A USD account

1. Create a www directory under your home directory (note that this directory must be called www).

   sunburst% mkdir ~/www

2. Make your home and www directories world searchable. (Remember to execute both of the following commands!)

   sunburst% chmod 711 ~/www
   sunburst% chmod 711 ~

3. Change your current directory to the www directory.

   sunburst% cd www

4. Create an HTML file in the www directory.

   sunburst% touch index.html

5. Set index.html readable to everyone so that all users can read the file.

   sunburst% chmod 644 index.html

6. Use one of the Unix editors (for example, pico) to open the file called index.html. (This is the default file name for which a WWW browser will look. Remember to name subsequent files in the same directory with a different filename!)

   sunburst% pico index.html

7. Read your Home Page. With your mouse, highlight the URL line/address bar in your browser and type in:

   http://www.usd.edu/~youruserid/

   --OR--

   Choose [Open URL] (or [Open Location]) under the [File] menu and type in:

   http://www.usd.edu/~youruserid/

8. Some Handy Tips

   ...for PC Users

   ...more UNIX information

   ...about Creating Home Pages--HTML Stuff

9. Creating Additional Files and Sub-Directories
   • Adding additional files to your www directory is easy; just make sure that you've done step 3 and are in your www directory. Then go through steps 4-6, being sure to call the new file(s) something other than index.html. To pull up your new file, enter http://www.usd.edu/~youruserid/newfilename.html under step 7.

   • Adding sub-directories to your www directory can be a useful way of organizing your web site. After step 3, create a new directory.

     sunburst% mkdir gifs

     Then change directories to that new sub-directory:

     sunburst% cd gifs

     To get back to the www directory, type:

     cd ..

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