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1) Getting an Account	5) URL Address
2) Setting Up your Account	6) Case Sensitivity
3) Creating WWW Pages	7) Points to Remember
4) Serving Personal Pages	8) For More Information

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Getting an Account

All personal web pages (also known as Husky pages) will be housed on the Husky1 Alpha mini-computer. The first step, therefore is to access your account on Husky1. All faculty, staff and students at the University have access to the Husky1 computer.

Students- All registered students at Saint Mary's already have access to Husky1, and can create their own accounts using the Activate program. If you haven¼t yet activated your Husky1 account, stop now and follow the directions in the brochure Activating your Computer account available from Computer Services Help Desk.

Faculty and Staff- If you don¼t already have an account on the Husky1 server, contact the Computer Services¼ Help Desk to apply for a Husky1 account. All faculty and staff are eligible for accounts and no special authorisation is required to gain a standard account.

Setting Up your Account

Once you¼ve gained access to your account, log into the Husky1 server from any computer or terminal. In order to serve pages, you must first create a WWW-accessible directory.

At the $prompt on Husky1, type WWW_SETUP. The program will create a WWW.DIR directory at the root level of your account, write a default WELCOME.HTML file inside the directory, and add your account name to an access file.

In order to create the directory, you must agree to certain regulations as presented by Saint Mary¼s University Computer Services. These regulations cover unacceptable content, space restrictions, and notify users that the WWW serving ability may be withdrawn should the service prove unsuitable for the Academic Alpha server.

Creating World Wide Web pages

WWW pages may be created on any platform you prefer, using any creation or word processing program you choose. The accepted language for Wold Wide Web is HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is a somewhat complicated, but easily learned, system of tags and instructions written in plain English.

Have a look at the tutorials in the second part of this document for more information about HTML.

Serving Personal Pages

In order to serve personal web pages you must first place them within the WWW directory you created in step one. there are several ways to do this.

From Husky1:
If you¼ve chosen to create your web pages using an editor on Husky1, simply write the pages then save them in the WWW.DIR directory.

From a Macintosh or PC:
If you¼ve written your pages on either of these platforms, you must transfer the files to the WWW.DIR directory on Husky1. In order to do this, you will use Windows FTP, Macintosh FETCH or some other form of file transfer program to move your files from the personal computer to Husky1.

First, ensure that your files have been saved as text. If you¼ve used Microsoft Word or a similar word processor, this option is available when you Save. If you¼ve already saved the page without specifying the text option, you can go back and change the saved format using „Save As¾ command.

Using the FTP program, log into Husky1, change to the WWW.DIR directory and place the appropriate files. Note that there are various formats for transfer. You should transfer text files as TEXT or ASCII, and graphic files as BINARY or RAW DATA.

URL Address

The URL or Uniform Resource Locator address for your personal pages will require the name of your server, and your username. The tilde or ~ character must precede the username. For example: To access the files of Jane Student with username j_stude1, you would type: http://husky1.stmarys.ca/~j_stude1 in your browser¼s Open window.

Access to your WWW.DIR directory will depend on a default file. You must name your main WWW page as WELCOME.HTML or specify the exact name of your main file. For example: If you use welcome.html as your main file, your URL (or page address) will appear as: http://husky1.stmarys.ca/~username A main file named other than welcome.html would be accessed by typing: http://husky1.stmarys.ca/~username/filename.html

Case Sensitivity

Many computer systems rely on case sensitivity when naming files. On some computer systems, for example, MyFile.HTML and myfile.html would be different files. The OpenVMS operating system on Husky1 is NOT case sensitive, however you should maintain a common case structure when referring to files. Using all lowercase file names in your html coding will avoid problems when accessing files via links or URLs.

Points to Remember

All text files will require an .HTM or .HTML extension. Using other extensions, such as .TXT or none at all will not allow the pages to serve properly and may have unpredictable results.

Image files will require the appropriate extension for their type, for example: GIF files will be named SOMETHING.GIF, JPEG files as SOMETHING.JPG, etc. Browser limitations make these two image formats the most appropriate for World Wide Web serving.

Clickable images are possible on the server and are created using appropriate map generators. Clickable images require a map coordinates file and this file should be named with a .MAP extension. Remember that the map file is text and should be treated as such.

For advanced users, you should note that CGI or Server Side Includes are not possible from user directories.
 

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