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Appendix A - UNIX and Home Pages

Now that you know the basics of HTML you are ready to create your own home page. Note that HTML documents have an htm extension on a DOS/Windows computer system, but have an html extension on a UNIX system. DSU's web documents are located on our UNIX server, Alpha. To get an account contact Guy Helmer (ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu). His office is located in 310 East Hall and his phone number is 5264, although you'll probably have to show up in person to get an account. When you contact him you might want to ask him to print you a copy of his UNIX manual. The manual was written for dsuvax, an older UNIX machine here on campus, but most of the guide's content still applies. You will also need to tell him that you are going to be creating a web home page for yourself, so he can create the proper directories.

The text editor you should use to create your HTML documents on the Alpha is called pico. In order to begin creation of your home page:


To transfer documents and images that you've created using your PC to the Alpha you will need to use a program called ws_ftp. If you do not have an icon for ws_ftp you will need to create one or run the program f:\winapps\winsock\ws_ftp.exe

If you are running the program for the first time it will open a Session Profile dialog box,

if it does not open on startup you will need to press the Connect button in the lower left-hand corner. Once in the dialog box type alpha in the text box marked "Host Name" and type your alpha user id and password in the text boxes marked "User ID" and "Password".

After clicking OK you should see the window on the following page:




Once in this window and connected you can change the current directory on the Alpha and your local system, select the files to transfer, and use the transfer buttons to move the files.

Notice that there are two transfer buttons, one to put files on the alpha and once to transfer files from the alpha .





Important

Your home page document must be saved in this directory:

/usr/local/etc/httpd/home/username/public_html/

Your home page document must also be saved with a filename of index.html

Your homepage URL will be: http://www.dsu.edu/~username