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Personal Web Site Guide
Contents
- About Your Web Space
- Web Page Folder
- Transferring Your Files
- Designing Web Pages
- Your URL
- CGI Scripts
- Using SSH
- Purchase webspace on webhotel (for departments)
- SSL certificate information
- U of MN Web Policies
About Your Web Space
Basic Client/Server Account
The basic client/server account provides full Internet access, an e-mail account, a 50MB home directory and 20MB of web space on the University servers. The homedirectory space can be used for IMAP mail folders, school files, and other general file storage. The 20MB of web space can house your personal Web page but type of account does not allow CGI scripts or access to UNIX commands. In order to store files of any type, you must move the files to your space on the server using SFTP software. For information on transferring files, go to http://www.umn.edu/adcs/guides/accounts/filetransfer.html.
Interactive Account
For a fee, you can upgrade your account to be an interactive account. This type of account provides full Internet access, an e-mail account, a 1GB home directory, 100MB of web space, CGI scripting ability, interactive access using SSH software, and access to a UNIX shell. The fee for this upgrade is:
- Student Accounts: $10 for 13 weeks (billed at the end of the 13-week period).
- Faculty, Staff and Alumni Accounts: $40 per year (payable in advance).
- Departments may purchase web space on WebHotel.
Students, faculty, and staff may make their upgrade fee payments by using the following Web page: http://www.umn.edu/myaccount. On this page there are several options. Everyone can pay using a VISA or MasterCard. Staff and faculty may use a University of Minnesota budget (CUFS) number. Students may charge their student account.
Web Page Folder
The server you store your files on includes a special folder called "web-docs." Anything put into this folder is publicly accessible on the Web. Do not put anything confidential into this folder! Also, you should not delete this folder, as it cannot be recreated without assistance from systems personnel.
You may design your own Web page and upload those files into your web-docs folder. This will allow others to see your Web page over the World Wide Web.
Transferring your Web files using SFTP
If you create your HTML files on your own computer, you can use SFTP to transfer your HTML files, graphics, etc. to your web space on the server. Enter the following information:
- Hostname: <your internet ID>.email.umn.edu
- Username: <your internet ID>
- Password: <your password>
- Directory: web-docs
- Username: <your internet ID>
File Permissions
Remember to make your files "world-readable" after you upload them. This process is simple, but it varies by SFTP software. Our file transfer guides contain instructions for setting the appropriate permissions on your Web files.
Designing Web Pages
In order to effectively use your web space, it is useful to have some familiarity with creating HTML documents and Web graphics. You will find several self-paced and instructor-led tutorials and courses at the University Technology Training Center.
Your URL
Your URL is http://www.tc.umn.edu/~<your Internet ID>
If you want a "home page" to appear on a browser when someone looks up your URL, you should put your home page file in your web-docs folder and name it one of the following:
index.html, home.html, welcome.html, Welcome.html, index.htm, INDEX.HTM
If you do not have a file with one of the above names in your web-docs folder, and you try to access your Web page through a browser, you will only see a listing of all the files you have in your web-docs folder. Please note that when naming your web documents, file names on the server are case sensitive: the files index.html and INDEX.HTML are recognized by the server as two different files.
CGI Scripts
CGI service is not available with your basic student account. If you want to run CGI scripts from your University of Minnesota Web page, you may purchase an interactive account.
Using SSH
You can access your web space through SSH (Secure Shell) if you have an interactive account. Use the instructions in the links below to access you web space through SSH.
About the Personal Web Page Service
Our goal is to provide reliable Web services to all users of this service. If activity related to your web space is found to be excessive and/or adversely affects server performance or other users, we reserve the right to make necessary adjustments.
University of Minnesota Web Policies
All Web pages residing on a University of Minnesota server must comply with the University of Minnesota Web policies, which prohibit the use of University resources for any commercial purpose or personal gain.
Contents of all electronic pages must be consistent with University of Minnesota policies and local, state, and federal laws. This includes links to other pages or computers. In other words, a page may be considered in violation if it contains links to a page that violates the policy.
Copyright laws apply to Web pages. Publishers must have permission to publish the information, graphics, or photographs on their pages if the publisher is not the author or creator.
Complete information on University of Minnesota Web Policies and guidelines is available at http://www.fpd.finop.umn.edu/groups/ppd/documents/policy/Publishing_on_WWW.cfm