Introduction
These instructions apply to both faculty and student webpages published on Suffolk County Community College's Internet server (Osprey). The instructions assume that you have created a page in correct HTML format and are ready to place the page on the World Wide Web.
To publish your page you must have an active email account on the Osprey machine, and you must know your username and password. If you are a student, then your account was created when you registered. If you do not know how to access your account, go to the academic computing center on your campus and ask about the email workshop for students.
Create Your URL
Login to your email account and, at the menu, choose number three, "Exit to the UNIX shell prompt." If your account does not bring up the four-choice menu, then you will be at the unix prompt as soon as you have logged in successfully. In either case, at the prompt, type in the word "homepage" and hit enter.
This command creates a subdirectory (or folder) under your home directory called public_html. This subdirectory has all of the necessary attributes set so that any files stored in it are available on the World Wide Web. You must store in the public_html subdirectory your main page (which should be named index.htm or index.html) and all subordinate pages along with their referenced image, sound, and video files.
If you are a student named Wiley Phillips whose social security number ends in 89, and you've logged into your email account and typed homepage, then you've created your own URL (uniform resource locator), which is http://www.sunysuffolk.edu/~philw89. All you have to do is store your pages in your public_html subdirectory to make them available on the web. Actually moving files from your computer to the web server, or vice-versa, requires the use of a file transfer program. These instructions cover two examples of transfer programs: the Netscape Gold editor, which has a built-in transfer capability, and the WS_FTP program, which is installed on all connected PCs at the College. Check the following links for instructions on how to use these two transfer programs.
If you have questions or comments about these instructions, please contact
M. Russo.