How Do I Make a Web Page?

First, you need to contact the sysadmin and let them know you want a WWW page. You'll then get an account and home directory on the web server. After this account has been setup, you can login to www.math.okstate.edu. You then need to make the WWW directory readable and executable by everyone. You'll also need your home directory executable by everyone. If you then make an HTML file called index.html in the WWW directory, and make it readable by everyone, then it'll show up when http://www.math.okstate.edu/~<username> is referenced.

Once you're logged in do this:

Just to make sure you're in your home directory enter cd
Make sure your home directory is executable by everyone so the web server can read your pages by entering
chmod +x .
Create a WWW directory to put your pages in by entering
mkdir WWW
Yes it needs to be WWW in upper case, not lower case
Make sure that directory is readable and executeable by everyone so the web server can display it by entering
chmod +rx WWW

Most web servers, ours included, are set to look for and display an index.html when someone looks for a directory. So if you create an index.html in your WWW directory it'll show up when someone looks for http://www.math.okstate.edu/~your_username.

Once you're all set, you can mail to webmaster@math.okstate.edu and ask to have your home page put in the department list of home pages.

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This page was last updated on August 21, 2000. Questions, suggestions, and general grumpings should be sent to webmaster@math.okstate.edu.