Instructions specific to our department

In case you want to have your own home page or your group/lab page, do the following:

• Login to the physics server.
• Type the command cd /home/www/home/{YourLoginName}
  If the reply is something like No such file or directory, mail the system administrator (root@physics.unipune.ac.in) to create the directory for you. Otherwise now you are in your web directory.
• Create (an) HTML file(s) in your web directory i.e. /home/www/home/{YourLoginName}. Some of the HTML references are given below. If you have already created your files somewhere else, copy them to this directory. If you have created them on machine other than the physics server, you will have to ftp them to the physics server, using your login name and password on it.
• Make your HTML file(s) readable to all by issuing the command:
  chmod a+r {your-files}
• Once you have done this, your files can be accessed by others on your HTTP ADDRESS viz.
  http://physics.unipune.ac.in/~{YourLoginName}/{your-file}
• If the name of your HTML file is either welcome.html or index.html, you need not specify it in the address. In that case, your address becomes
  http://physics.unipune.ac.in/~{YourLoginName}/
• Check whether your page is accessible now. For that, Start your browser (Netscape, Intac Explorer, Lynx, etc.) and type your address as given above. Now your home page should show up. If that does not happen, check whether you have exactly followed all the instructions above.
• You can modify your files any time. The modified page can be immediately viewed by clicking the "Reload" button (or Ctrl-R for lynx).

Once you are through writing HTML files and want your files to be linked to the Departmental Home Page, send an email to webadmn specifying the name(s) of your file(s) with the complete path. Remember that the files should be in the directory /home/www/home/{YourLoginName}. You shall be informed of the change as soon as it is done.

Groups in the department who wish to have their own home pages are strongly urged to write their own home pages. Follow the same procedure for that purpose. You can request a separate group account through the web interface.

If you want to learn more about Apache 1.3--the software that works as the webserver for this site, here is the documentation.