The machine name for the server is science.kennesaw.edu

When you first get a password, you will need to telnet to science.kennesaw.edu
and set a new password (you will be prompted for it).  After that, if you
don't want to deal with unix, you can do all of your file editing on your
personal computer and just transfer the files using an ftp program.  If the
ftp program ever tells you that the password has expired, you may have to
telnet to set a new one.  In unix, "exit" will log you off from a telnet session.

The easiest way to set up your page is probably to use a local version of
Netscape or Mosaic on a Mac or PC, write the files there using a text editor,
or an HTML editor, test them locally, and then upload to science.kennesaw.edu
using ftp.

In the discussion below, username is the name that you use to log in.

Your home directory on the unix machine is /home/username

To allow WWW access to files in your home directory, create a sub-directory
called public_html in your home directory if it does not already exist.*  This
directory and its sub-directories are the only places that the WWW server will be
able to access within your directory.  In other words, no one can use WWW to
access any other files in your home directory, even if they know the names.

A file containing the html script for your home page should be named home.html
and located in this directory.  It can access any other files within public_html
or subdirectories.  Notice that with html you can specify locations relative to
the current file by leaving out the hostname, etc.  This means that your homepage
should reference other files in public_html just by using their names.

To access your home page use
        http://science.kennesaw.edu/~username

Yes, the squiggle there is a tilde, usually located on the back-single-quote key.

This will pull up the home.html file in your public_html directory.  To directly
access any other files in public_html , use 
        http://science.kennesaw.edu/~username/filename

In other words, the public_html is inserted as a default.

If you are on-campus kennesaw.edu is not needed.

The server is configured to default to files home.html or index.html,
whichever it finds first in a directory.  If it does not find one of these,
then the user will get a directory listing for that directory.  This means
that it is a good idea to always have one of these files in every directory
under your public_html directory.

*To create a directory in unix (using telnet, for example), use the unix
command mkdir.  To change directories, use cd.  Most ftp programs can create
directories, copy files, and delete files, so it is possible to set up your
web pages with no knowledge of unix.



Last update: July 18, 1998