Overview

Every ECE LRC account has a personal webspace associated with it as long as your account is valid. By enabling your ECE LRC webspace, you agree to follow The University of Texas at Austin's Acceptable Use Policy.

Setup

Enabling your ECE webspace is very simple, just follow the steps below:

1. Log onto an ECE LRC Linux Workstation. If you are unsure of how to do this, please see the Linux workstation documentation.
2. Create a directory named "public_html" in your home directory.
3. Change Permissions. Your home directory must be world executable. All directories under and including "public_html" must be world readable and world executable. All files under "public_html" must be world readable.
4. Add Content. HTML files should end in a ".html" extension. PHP files should end in a ".php" extension.
5. View your content by going to the location: http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~username

To create the "public_html" directory and set your permissions correctly, you can use the following commands:

mkdir ~username/public_html
chmod o+x ~username
chmod o+rx ~username/public_html

Adding Content

Now you are ready to add content to your webspace. Whenever you add a file, you will need to make sure the file is world readable. You can do so with the following command:

chmod o+r ~username/public_html/myfile.html

To set the permissions on all your files in one fell swoop, you can use the chmod command with the recursive (-R) option:

chmod -R o+r ~username/public_html

Whenever you add a new directory, you need to make sure it in world readable and world executable. You can do so with the following command:

chmod o+rx ~usernam/public_html/mydir

Tips

Here are a few helpful links for creating web pages:

• Basic HTML Tutorial - http://www.w3schools.com/html/
• PHP Tutorial - http://www.w3schools.com/php/
• Restricting access with htaccess - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html
• Eric Meyer's CSS Guides - http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/