Instructions for Stanford people
Any Stanford person with a SUNet
ID and Stanford Unix account can put his or her pages on the Web by following
the steps below. The URL for your personal web page will be http://www.stanford.edu/~yoursunetid/.
Your Stanford Unix home directory holds your WWW directory, which holds your
web pages. This WWW directory has been pre-configured to work with the www.stanford.edu
web server. If you need to create a web directory from
scratch we provide step-by-step instructions, but otherwise, all you have
to do to get started on the web is:
- Create an HTML file
- Put the HTML file onto the web
- Check your web page
- Protect your pages?
- Enhance your pages
Create an HTML file
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If you don't know HTML Go to the Learning HTML page. It will provide you with a variety of links to HTML tutorials, guides, classes, and pages both on and off campus that teach you how to make a web page. If you just want to get a rudimentary page onto the web right away, use our quickie web template, then come back to this page.
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If you already know HTML Simply invoke your favorite text or HTML editor and get started. Here's a few basics to remember when coding your HTML:
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The home page you create must be called index.html, and it must be placed in your WWW directory. You can place other documents in your WWW directory, but this is the only directory from which your pages can be served to the web.
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If you're interested in running scripts/programs, you'll need to use the CGI Service, since the web server won't execute user scripts placed in your WWW directory.
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Put the HTML file onto the web
After you've finished creating your HTML file you can transfer the files to your home directory using a variety of "web-friendly" Stanford programs. The File Transfer site provides step by step instructions for Macintosh, Windows, and Unix.
Check your web page
After putting your file into your home directory you'll want to check to make sure everything worked out okay. Go to your browser and open the following URL:
http://www.stanford.edu/~yoursunetid/Obviously replacing "yoursunetid" with your actual SUNet ID. If, for example, your SUNet ID were jdoe you could see your home page at http://www.stanford.edu/~jdoe. If your home page does not show up, review these instructions closely. If you're still stuck, submit a HelpSU request.
Protect your pages?
Most people create web pages knowing they can be seen by anyone anywhere
on the world wide web. This is a good thing. On the other hand, it's not uncommon
to want only certain people to see certain pages, depending on their content.
There are several ways to restrict access to your Web pages. You can set
file permissions on the web files in your WWW directories, in order to
govern which people can make changes to your web files, but to actually
deny or allow access to your pages on the web you'll want to learn about:
- WebAuth
- To allow only Stanford people (all Stanford people, or just particular Stanford people, etc.) to see your web pages, you'll need to use WebAuth. This is the most often used method for protecting your pages at Stanford.
- User Authentication
- If you want to allow only non-Stanford people (or some combination of Stanford and non-Stanford people) to see your pages, this is the method you'll employ.
Enhance your pages
The Stanford Web Service makes a variety of features available to people who want to make their web pages more useful or just plain fun. You can learn more about the CGI service for making forms, vanity names for making long or cumbersome URLs more readable, how to add a Google-based search function to your web pages, and other web options on the Web Service Features page.
