Setting Up a Home Page

Reviewed by John Sopko 4/27/2012

Persons who have a login account in the Department of Computer Science can create a personal home page on the web as follows:

Log in to a Linux system and create a subdirectory named public_html.  (You must use this name exactly.)  See Public Linux machines to login to one of our public linux machines to access the space.  Execute the following commands to create your public_html directory and give the proper AFS permissions so the web server can read your files:

cd
mkdir public_html
fs setacl public_html cs-machines rl

In your public_html subdirectory, using your favorite text editor or an html editor, create a file called index.html.  (You must use this name exactly.)  This file may contain whatever you want to place on the web, and it must use HTML (hypertext markup language) to specify formatting or links to other pages.

Your public_html page will map to the following URL:

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~login_name

where login_name is the name of your login account.  See the Department's Web Server FAQ for more information.