Department of Engineering

How to put files on the Web

A bare minimum Home Page

• mkdir ~/public_html
• chmod go+rx ~/public_html

You need to do that so that others can see the files. You will also need to make your home directory accessible by doing "chmod go+x ~ ".

Note that this gives users of the Teaching System somewhat more access to your files than before, but they'll still only be able to read what you've made explicitly readable. Once you've done all that then any file in your public_html folder will be on the WWW as long as you remember to make it readable by all - use "chmod a+r filename" to do that. If you create a file there called "test", for example, and put a few words into it, then you can can see the file on the WWW as http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~your_user_id/test. It's best to start by writing a index.html file (a template index.html document is online) because this is the file that will be displayed if http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~your_user_id without a filename is loaded into a browser.

Remember to sign all your documents using <address>...</address>. And please read the Worldwide Web Departmental Guidelines too.

Adding more HTML documents

See the Producing material for the WWW for more information on creating more interesting documents. Alternatively, use your browser's View Source or Document Source option whenever you find a document you wish to emulate.