Creating Your Own Home Page

  1. Create a directory called public_html in your home directory, on any unix machine supported by the computer center (in 'study', we already did it for you).
  2. Place a file named index.html in this directory. This will be your home page source file. Use your favorite editor to write into it text in HTML, the markup language used by the World Wide Web. If you use an html editor on your personal computer (eg FrontPage), or prepare your file in MSWord and save it as an HTML file. Transfer the file to your unix account using an ftp client (eg ws_ftp).
  3. Once again in your home directory, make sure that the directory and the file are world-readable by typing : 
            chmod 755 ~/public_html 
    
        chmod 644 ~/public_html/index.html
That's it! Now your Home Page will be accessible from any point in the world via the World Wide Web. Anyone who wants to read the information you've put in your ~/public_html/index.html file should refer to the URL: http://<yourhostname>.haifa.ac.il/~<login>/ , where <login> is your loginname.

For example :
If your login is amnon and your host is study,
your home-page URL (i.e. address) is http://study.haifa.ac.il/~amnon


Troubleshooting

Where to start from ?

A complete example of a homepage.

Last modified Oct. 20, 2003 by Naomi Schor .