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Directions for Setting up a Homepage on an Engineering Account

The server for Engineering accounts is www.eng.iastate.edu. Once you have completed the steps below, the URL for your homepage will be in the form:

www.eng.iastate.edu~username
(with the word username replaced with your ISU NetID.)

To set up a directory that is readable to people on the World Wide Web, execute the following list of commands in a Unix prompt exactly as they appear here:

>cd
>mkdir WWW
>chmod a+r .
>chmod a+r WWW

At this point you need to make a file called homepage.html in the WWW directory that you created. homepage.html is your homepage.

Any files in the WWW directory must also have 'r' permissions set so that the WWW server can see them.

To set 'r' (stands for read) permissions on any file you can do:
>chmod a+r filename

This command makes it so that ANYONE can read this file. This is exactly what you want for the WWW directory.

BE CAREFUL!!!

If you do a chmod a+r * in your home directory that makes it so that ANYONE can see your files...If you follow the directions exactly as stated above, this will not be a problem.

If you want to know more about chmod type:
>man chmod

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