HOW-TOs & Tutorials / How to setup a web page

Starting your first web page?

To setup your home page on diesel (undergraduates or eelab account holders)

    • create public_html in your homedirectory with mkdir ~/public_html
    • chmod 755 ~/public_html
    • chmod o+x ~
    • chmod o+x ~/..
    • Now create your web documents in ~/public_html/
    • Set permission of the web pages to 644: chmod 644 ~/public_html/

Your home page should be accessible from http://www.eelab.usyd.edu.au/~username/ where "username" is your login name.

To setup your home page on cassius (staff & postraduates)

Follow exactly the same procedure as for diesel but repalce public_html with WWW

Your home page should be accessible from http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/~username/ where "username" is your login name.

To use cgi scripts on diesel/cassius do the following:

  1. Place scripts under public_html/WWW
  2. Rename them to [script_name].cgi
  3. Make the script executable: chmod 755 [script_name].cgi
  4. If you have problems with running your scripts do the following:
    • locate error_log; you'll get something like : /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
    • run the script again/view the page that includes the script
    • tail  "the error_log file"
    • try to understand  the cause of the error and debug your script.
    • and if no joy email that error to helpdesk

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