Setting up your own Home page.

Setting up your own home page on carrai.

On carrai, carry out the following operations:

Create a subdirectory of your own main directory called www_public
In your www_public directory create a file called Welcome.html
Give your top directory exectute permission to all.
Give your www_public directory exectute permission to all.
Give your Welcome.html file read and execute permission to all.
For example, as soon as you have logged in type

chmod a+x . (please note the dot!)
mkdir www_public
chmod a+x www_public
cd www_public
vi Welcome.html (the next six lines are part of your Welcome.html file)

<title> Your_name's Home Page </title> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
<h1> Your_name's Home Page </h1>
<P>
Put anything you want here...
<P>
<a href="http://www.maths.mu.oz.au/"> Maths Home Page </a>
</BODY>

( now exit vi )
chmod a+xr Welcome.html
When you have done the above email Lisa who will put a link to your page in the Departments database of personal home pages.

If you want direct access to your home page ie not go via the maths home page, then use the URL: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~your_user_name

If you want more information about writing web pages try starting from Yahoo's HTML index.: