Setting up a Web account on the Wesleyan Web Server
This is a quick and dirty guide to getting a web page established on the Wesleyan World Wide Web Server. It assumes that you have a working knowledge of html, of telnet and of ftp, and some familiarity with the idea of permissions within UNIX.

If that is not the case, you can get additional help by contacting your regional computing coordinator.
There are three easy steps to getting a web page established and operational on the Wesleyan World Wide Web Server.

1. Apply for an account on the WWW Server
To apply for an account, contact your regional computing coordinator.

2. Login to Web Server
You need only do this once, although if there are problems with people not being able to read your pages, you can try the last commands ("chmod a+r ~/public_html/*") over again to see if that helps.

open "telnet" session telnet to "www.wesleyan.edu"

Once you have done this, type in the following commands, followed by a hard return . These commands make the files that you put onto the web server visible to rest of the world.

command what the command does
mkdir ~/public_html creates directory where your html files will be placed
chmod a+x ~/ sets the permissions for the directory to allow the files to be readable on the world wide web
chmod a+x ~/public_html sets the permissions for the directory to allow the files to be readable on the world wide web
chmod a+r ~/public_html/* sets the permissions for the directory to allow the files to be readable on the world wide web

3. Transfer your material from your hard disk to the web server
Once you are satisfied with the appearance of the pages that you have developed locally, you can then transfer them via ftp to the web server. The convention for this server is that the "home" page for your web pages should be called "home.html".To transfer your pages, you can use eithe WinQVT (PC) or Fetch (Mac).

Preview the pages with your web browser. (Be sure to use reload to test to see if changes registed.) If the pages do not appear to be readable, you can type the command "chmod a+r ~/public_html/*" at the command prompt on the www server, which changes the permissions for the documents you have just transfered up to the server.

The address of your page is : http://www.wesleyan.edu/~username/