Creating Your Homepage
You will need to be familiar with basic UNIX commands in order to understand the
following instructions. If not, take a look at the manual pages for the following
commands: ls, mkdir, chmod. Use the "man" command to read a man page.
The first step is to check the permissions on your home directory and create a .www
directory within it. Read the .www tutorial to do this.
Create your home page. This is a text file called index.html within your .www directory.
If you want to edit the html directly, you can use a text editor such as xemacs, emacs, pico or vi:
% cd ~/.www
% xemacs index.html
This will call up the xemacs text editor. Please note, you can use any text editor to create
and edit the index file, e.g. emacs, pico, vi, etc. Cut and paste the following into xemacs:
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Hello world</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
This is my homepage.
</p>
</body>
</html>
Check permissions on all your .www directory files. Anything you want readable on the Web
needs to be 644 (world readable). For example, after you create your index.html file above, do:
% chmod 644 index.html
Test your homepage
With your favorite browser, open
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~<username>/
http://www-users.itlabs.umn.edu/~<username>/
If you get an Internal Server Error, double-check that you followed all the steps above.
If you still can't get it to work, contact Systems Staff.
Disclaimer Policy
University of Minnesota policy requires that the following disclaimer appear on all personal pages and on all student organization pages. It will be automatically appended to pages that you create:
"The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author. The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Minnesota."
Related Links
University of Minnesota Policies
The policies enforced by the U of M must be followed while creating web pages within the University's domain.
Helpful HTML links
The following list contains helpful resources for creating HTML web sites.
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