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The World Wide Web (www) server on this computer supports internal PUCC www and personal home pages. For links to www and Gopher servers at Purdue University, see the Purdue University Home Page.

If you plan to create a personal home page and place it in the World Wide Web, you should be familiar with IT@P policies on the proper use of the Purdue University computing facilities.

Nuts-and-Bolts on Personal Home Pages

If you can create a personal World Wide Web home page on this machine. Your www documents must be stored in a subdirectory named www under your home directory, and this directory (~/www) must be world-executable and world-readable. Note: your home directory "~" must be world-executable.

Follow these steps to create a directory for your personal www home page:

• Create a subdirectory under your home directory and name it www. Use the command: mkdir ~/www
• Make your home directory world-executable. Use the command: chmod go+x ~
• Make your www subdirectory world-readable and world-executable. Use the command: chmod go+rx ~/www
• Put your HTML files in your www subdirectory.

When someone tries to open your personal www directory, the server looks (in order) for the files index.html, index.shtml,and finally index.cgi. (For the convenience of DOS users, the suffix .htm is also acceptable such as index.htm.) See the next section for information about HyperText Markup Language (HTML) files. Obviously, if you want a welcome page to be automatically displayed for curious web surfers, you'll give your welcome file one of these three names.

Every document you place in the World Wide Web must be world-readable. Run the command: chmod go+r on each HTML file you want the world to read!

The information you put into your personal home page will be displayed whenever someone tries to open the unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for your account. The URL for your home page is of the form:

where your-account-id is your login identifier. For example, the URL for the account named smith is

How do I write HTML?

Fortunately, HTML is thoroughly documented. See A Beginner's Guide to HTML for an introduction.

Another common question: what editor should I use to write HTML? The answer largely depends on your personal editor preference; since HTML is a markup language, any generic text editor will work nicely. For example, this document is being written using Emacs.