Creating a Personal Web Page

How to Create a Personal Home Page at MUSC
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Rules
The contents of a personal web page do fall under the MUSC Computer Use Policy.

In distilling the Computer Use Policy down to it's basics, there are essentially four rules that apply to personal web pages, and must be followed:

you cannot use MUSC equipment to earn money for yourself, your friends or your family (i.e. no commercial web pages),

you can't do anything illegal,

you can't do something that will cost MUSC money (e.g. creating a site that brings so much network traffic that MUSC needs to buy more access lines to the Internet, or so large that you fill up the disk drive on the server), and

you must be very careful that your password(s) to MUSC systems remain secure (your page will be readable by anyone on the Internet).

Creating a personal web page directory

First, you need to connect to Homeroom by mapping a drive to
\\homeroom\youruserid
More information on Homeroom.

You can also access your Homeroom via an ftp connection in two ways:

http://www.musc.edu/ftphomeroom

use an ftp client to connect to atrium.musc.edu

Second, create a folder called

public_html
at the root level of your Homeroom. When you are creating the directory, make sure that you type it exactly as shown: using lower case letters, and an underscore character "_" in the name.

Macintosh users

First, you need to connect to Homeroom. More information on Homeroom.

You can use OS X finder to make the connection:

From the GO menu, select "Connect to Server"
Type "afp://homeroom.musc.edu"
Click Connect
Supply your MNA and Password
Double click your MNA from the resulting list
Select "New Folder" from the File menu (Command-Shift-N)
Name the folder public_html
Put your html files in this directory

Your home page

All the files you want to have accessible on your personal web site must be placed inside the public_html directory. HTML files should end with a .htm or .html extension. The default page (or home page) should be called index.html. You can also use this directory to share non-web files, such as Word documents, etc.

The following example shows the type of URL that you will need to access your new web page.

Example:

If your MNA userid is: doej
Then your personal URL is: http://people.musc.edu/~doej

If you named your home page correctly (index.html) then this address will bring up that file. Otherwise, you'll see what looks like a directory listing of your public_html directory.

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