Setting up your IS2 Account for the WWW

1. Login to your IS2 account

2. Make a directory called public_www

mkdir public_www

3. Set the permissions for this directory to be world readable and executable

chmod 755 public_www

4. Set the permissions of your home directory to be world executable

cd ..
chmod 711 (your user name)
cd (your user name)

5. You now have a world viewable directory. Although its called public_www, people accessing via the WWW will not be able to access the directory by that name. In order to get to it by the WWW they must go to the URL:

http://is2.dal.ca/~yourusername.

This will get them an index of the files located there. If you create a file called index.html in the public_www directory, this file will automatically be displayed when using the above URL .

6. All files you place in the public_www directory need to be made world readable in order for them to be viewable.

chmod 644 filename

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