Information Technology

Here's how you go about setting up your webpage:

Your WWW Directory

If you have a directory called WWW in your home directory you can access it from the web using the URL:

home.eng.iastate.edu/~username

where username is your ISU NetID account name. Any file in your WWW directory that is readable by the web server is accessible over the Internet. Your WWW directory must be "world readable". The file index.html in your WWW directory is the default name of your homepage.

Create your home directory from an Engineering Linux or Windows machine using one of the procedures below.

To Create Your WWW Directory Using Linux

1. Log in to an Engineering Linux machine using your ISU NetID.
2. Open a terminal window.
3. From the command line, type:

mkdir ~/WWW

chmod 755 WWW

chmod 701 ~

Use your favorite HTML editor to create your homepage file, index.html in the WWW directory.

To Create Your WWW Directory Using Windows

Log in to a Windows machine in the IASTATE domain. Click the 'Start' button, then select 'My Computer'.

A new window will open, and near the bottom, under "Network Drives", you should see an icon labelled "(U:)". Double-click on that drive to open it.

In the new window that opens, click on "File" and select "New -> Folder" from the drop down menu.

A new folder will appear titled "New Folder". Click once on the new folder to highlight it. Then select "File" and "Rename" from the drop down menu.

Rename the folder "WWW" using all capitals but no quotations.

You should now have a folder called "WWW".

Double-click on the "WWW" folder to open it. Right-click on this link: index.html and select "Save Target as".

Save the file in your U: drive, in the "WWW" folder you just created.

Right-click on the index.html file, and select "Properties".

On the new window that opens, click the "Security" tab. Highlight "Everyone" by clicking on it. Then click on the check box under "Allow" that is to the right of "Read & Execute".

Click "OK" to close the window.

This allows other people to open this file, otherwise you are the only person that has permission to open it. Remember you must do this for every file that you copy or create in your WWW folder, otherwise the web page will return an error message.

Try viewing your new web site. The address is home.eng.iastate.edu/~username where username is your ISU NetID.

That's it! You can now edit the template file you copied by opening it up in Notepad or another text editor.