How to Create a Web Page

• Creating a Web Page on stat

• Basic HTML

• Inline Images

• Tables

• Netscape Extensions

• Help On Getting RGB Color Values

Using the www_setup Script

There is a script on stat, called www_setup, which will create the necessary directories and a sample start file so that any unix user can have a personal home page. You will have to edit the file to personalize it. Just from the sample commands in the default index.html file, it should be possible to create a simple text home page.

Pico is the simpliest editor on stat, or you could use Word on the mac to create a page and then use fetch to ftp it to stat, and put it in your WWW directory. (All the files in that directory should have a .html extension.) The www_setup script can be run at a later time to set permissions in the public directory so that others can see your pages.

Of course, the instructions below still apply as well.

Creating a Web Page

To create a web page on stat, you will have to create a directory called WWW in your home directory, make it (and the files in it) world readable, and create the home page, called index.html. The index will then be accessed when someone specifies the URL: http://www.stat.osu.edu/~your_username.

Step by step walk through, with commands in bold, comments in italics:

1. cd
   Make sure you're in your home directory.

2. mkdir WWW
   Create the WWW directory.

3. chmod 755 WWW
   Make it world readable.

4. cd WWW
   Go there.

5. emacs index.html
   Create your index html document.

6. chmod 644 index.html
   Make it world readable.

7. Finally, test it by looking at it with a browser.

Note: Do not make your pages/directories world writable. For more information see the short subject on Unix File Protections. Also, do not put any symbolic links in your WWW directory that lead outside that directory tree.

What's Appropriate

Please see the Policies page for these rules.