Using your Netfiles space as a website

Space allotment

Each user is given 5 GB of space with Netfiles. You can use as much of this space as is available for personal webspace.

Create your www directory

Some early users have www directory automatically, this directory was removed from new user templates due to a trash problem. Newer users can easily create this folder themselves.

1. Create a directory named "www".

2. Click the share icon.

3. Add a check for the Read permission for the Public group and make sure that "Apply the changed permission to this directory as well as its sub-directories and files." is selected before applying the change.

Your Webspace

Your Netfiles account is set up with a special folder called www. Anything you place in this folder is web accessible to all users.
The URL for this space is http://netfiles.umn.edu/users/{Internet ID}/www where {Internet ID} is your Internet ID. If you would like, you can use your World Wide Web URL
Your browser will look for one of these files (in this order) to identify your homepage:

index.html
home.html

Note that these files are case sensitive. If your directory does not have one of these file in it, users who go to your site will see a listing of files in the directory.

Setting permissions

In addition to having your WWW folder be web accessible, you can make any folder in your netfiles space, web accessible to either the entire internet or just a small number of users.

The permissions you can set on any folder are Read, Write, Delete, and Administer.

Making a folder web accessible

To make a folder Web Accessible, you need to change the rights for Public from none to Read.

Setting up webspace for a group of authenticated users

Netfiles allows you to set up webspace to allow only a group of users you choose to access it. To do this you need to:

Using Dreamweaver to Publish to your webspace

If you choose, you can use Dreamweaver to publish your webpages.