Putting A Web Page Online

Anyone with a Math department Unix account can now set up their own WWW documents (using HTML) and have them accessable to anyone in the world. A variety of WWW browsers such as Mosaic, Netscape and Lynx may be used to view these documents.

In order to create a home page, users need to create a subdirectory in their home directory, called public_www. This will be the ONLY directory that the HTTP server can access.

The public_www directory, your home directory and the files inside it must all be world-readable, meaning the groups and others fields must be set to read and execute. This can be done using the chmod command. The actual permissions must be 755 for directories and 644 for files (640 if they are in group web).

The files are accessed with a URL (Universal Resource Locater) of:
http://www.math.byu.edu/~{username}/{filename}.html
Where ~{username} is the '~' character followed by you login name, and {filename} is the name of your html document. The public_www directory is NOT part of your URL. The WWW server will always start from that point.

We recommend that you use the name index.html for your homepage. The HTTP server will always look for this file name if none are specified. This will allow you to specify your URL as simply:
http://www.math.byu.edu/~{username}/

Once you have your documents ready for public viewing (Please TEST to make sure it works), contact the webmaster, with your full name as you would like it on the list, and the URL to access your main document.

PLEASE NOTE: All documents should be in keeping with the BYU Honor Code and other applicable University Standards.

IMPORTANT! Please take a few minutes to review Web Page Accessibility. Make sure your web page can still be used by visually or hearing impaired users and those whose browsers do not support images or multi-media. Thanks!