Creating The Web Directory

From your home directory, do the following:

%mkdir public_html
%chmod 711 . public_html
%cd public_html

Making your page available

At this point you need to have an html file. Name the file index.html. This file will be in the public_html directory. Make sure it is accessable to the outside world via the command:
%chmod 644 index.html

Making your page Unpublished

If at some point in the future you don't want your home page to show up in the listing, create the following file in public_html:

%cd public_html
%touch .noshow

Making your page Published

And if you later decide you want people to be able to see the page, then type in the following:

%cd public_html
%rm .noshow

Notes

  • The college wide view of the pages is updated every 15 minutes on the 15 minute mark.
  • Where ever you see the suffix ".html", you can also use ".htm". This does not apply to the directory name public_html.