Steps to setup a webpage on the new Linux server

• Once you have an account on the server, you can set up a personal webpage on the server. First, log in the server with your private key. The detailed instructions for login can be found in the previous instruction page on this website.
• After logging in the server, you are at your home directory, e.g. /home/jdoe and then create a web directory named "public_html" within your home directory using command "mkdir" like below:

  $mkdir public_html
  

  A directory (or folder) named public_html will be created under your home directory (/home/yourusername) on the server machine. This directory will be used to store your web pages. The absolute path of this directory is /home/yourusername/public_html. The URL (web address) https://cs1.txwes.edu/~yourusername will be associated with (mapped to) this directory.

  For example, if you have a web page named hello.html under public_html directory, you can view this web page by typing URL: https://cs1.txwes.edu/~yourusername/hello.html. If you don’t specify an html file name after https://cs1.txwes.edu/~yourusername/ in the URL, the web server will look for default file called index.html within the public_html directory and send it back to your browser if it exists. So, it is typical to have a file named index.html in your website as a starting page (or landing page) from which ther pages may be linked.

  Similarly, a webpage with a URL https://cs1.txwes.edu/~jdoe/csc4341/project.html can be found in /home/jdoe/public/csc4341/project.html on the server.

• You can create web pages on your local computers and upload them to the server using either command-line tool such as SFTP or GUI software tool like FileZilla. Separate tutorial pages can be found on this website. Below is your website link on the new server:

  https://cs1.txwes.edu/~yourusername/
  e.g.
  https://cs1.txwes.edu/~jdoe/