How to Create a Personal Home Page

• Create a subdirectory named public_html (you must use this name exactly) under your home directory and give read permission to any user. Here are the steps:

    cd                                     (takes you to your home directory)
    mkdir public_html                      (create your web root data area)
    fs sa public_html cs-machines rl    (sets proper AFS file permissions)

• In your public_html subdirectory, using your favorite text editor or a 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 World Wide Web, and it must use HTML (hypertext markup language) to specify formatting or links to other pages.
• Ensure that "world" has read access to the file by executing

    chmod 644 index.html

• To access your web page use the URL "http://www.cs.unc.edu/~user_name/

where "~user_name" is your UNIX login account name.

Your "public_html" directory is your virtual document root that is accessed whenever the URL "http://www.cs.unc.edu/~user_name/" is used.

After you have created your home page, if you are faculty, staff, or a departmental guest (visiting researchers, postdoctoral scholars), you should send e-mail to pubs so that your page can be linked to the faculty page, staff page, or visiting researchers page.

There are automatically generated lists for:

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Alumni

 See the Department's Web server FAQ for more info.