Creating a Personal Webpage

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NOTE: where you see “username”, replace that with your username.

ssh into one of our Linux or Solaris machines

chmod 701 ~username (don’t forget the ~ ) mkdir public_html chmod 701 public_html cd public_html Edit index.html with your favorite editor. Follow the template below for your index.html file:

Title of my webpage This is a test!

Save and exit from your editor. chmod 704 index.html

Now check your work. Does it work? To check: On the GRAD network, use http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~username On the UGRAD network, use http://ugrad.cs.jhu.edu/~username or http://www.ugrad.cs.jhu.edu/~username

If you have problems, check your permissions again. 

 Please be very careful changing your top-level home directory permissions.

If you are a GRAD student and want to update the link to your webpage on the Graduate Students page, please e-mail Cathy Thornton . Setting up CGI scripts

mkdir ~username/public_html/cgi-bin chmod 705 ~username/public_html/cgi-bin cd ~username/public_html/cgi-bin Create your cgi/perl script in the cgi-bin directory. Make sure the top line of your perl script says: #!/usr/local/bin/perl chmod 704 test.pl (replace the name “test.pl” with your script name.)

To call up your cgi-script via a web browser, use the following format (replace “username” with your username and “test.pl” with your perl script name.)

If your cgi-script is on the GRAD network: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/username/test.pl

If your cgi-script is on the UGRAD network: http://ugrad.cs.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/username/test.pl


If you have further issues, please e-mail the webmaster with a complete description of your problem.