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If you have a traditional email account with the SOM that was created on or before April 1998, you can create a world wide web directory using the methods described here. If you have a newer LDAP account, please contact request@med.unc.edu.

The wwwpub subdirectory is an area reserved for your documents that you wish to publish on the Web. These documents must be written in or converted to html. Before creating your directory, please read our policy on web pages.

How to create your directory space:

You must have a current account with the OIS. If you do not have one, you may fill out an online application form or stop by our office at 76 MacNider Hall.

  1. Open a telnet session and log in
  2. Type e for User Utilities
  3. Type b to execute a non-menu program and then type csh
  4. Type mkdir wwwpub and press enter
  5. Type chmod 755 wwwpub and press enter
  6. Type chmod 711 ~yourusername (where ~yourusername is your actual user name!) and press enter
  7. Type exit and press enter

Your directory's name will be constructed from your user name. For instance, if your user name is johndoe, then the URL is http://www.med.unc.edu/~johndoe/. Unless you create a document called welcome.htm, all files in your directory will be listed and anyone who can get to your directory will be able to access any of your files there. This feature is convenient for those who wish to make files such as PowerPoint available.

If you do not want people to see all of your documents, create a page called welcome.htm. This file will be the first of your web pages, so if people do not specify which of your pages they want to see, they will automatically get welcome.htm. You can link to your other pages from welcome.htm. This feature is convenient for those who want to control what documents people see, and in what order.

How to move your files to the web server:

FTP (or otherwise move) your files and html documents to your directory (/wwwpub/your_directory).

How to configure your ftp to move files to the web server:

  1. create a new profile called My homepage
  2. host name: www.med.unc.edu
  3. host type: automatic
  4. user id: your SOM id
  5. user password: your SOM unix password

Once you press the connect button you will be connected to your webpage space. Make sure you put your files into the wwwpub directory. Learn how to use FTP here.

 

Updated 14 April 00