Saturday, May 14, 2005

So you want a Temple Webpage

No problem. You already have space on astro. You just don't know how to access it. You have two options to make a web page: 1. Go through TUportal and click on the tab labeled "My Backpack"

  • From here you can upload files to your backback, which is a private folder that can be shared with others or not.
  • If you want to upload a website, you need to click on "Publish My Webpage"
  • It is a little annoying because you can only upload one file at a time. But it is user friendly.
  • If you are a little more computer saavy you can try...

2. Or you can use a secure file transfer protocol (SFTP).

  • Temple gives you a free program called SSH Secure Shell here and they give you directions on how to use it here.
  • You can upload multiple files and create directories with ease. Your website directory is "public_html"
  • Temple doesn't really give you any help creating a web site. That is up to you and whatever software you choose to use.
  • If you are using Blogger, or you want to upload directly from your software (i.e. Microsoft Frontpage) you will have to know the full path of your "public_html" directory.
  • This is done by going to the unix prompt and typing pwd
  • So the full path would be something like /homeb/033/username/public_html

As a side note, your website is always located at http://astro.temple.edu/~username (where "username" is your accessnet username). Don't forget the tilde (~) symbol!!

If you need any more assistance you can try Temple Webhelp.

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