Setting Up a Personal Web Site

You are welcome to publish your web pages on the divisional web server. We have an in-house web-publishing system called Common Knowledge that you can use, or you can simply use your personal account on the HSS Unix cluster.

Using Common Knowledge To Publish Web Pages

TBD

Using Your Unix Account to Publish Pages

All faculty, graduate students and staff in the division have accounts on the HSS Unix cluster. This simple fact means that you can create a personal web site simply by creating a subdirectory named public_html in your home directory on the Unix fileserver.

If you don't know how to connect to the Unix cluster, please read Chris Malek's online instructions.

Note: If you choose to use SFTP/SSH to transfer files between your computer and the fileserver, you need to make sure that your account has been configured to allow shell access. Contact help@hss.caltech.edu if you're not sure whether this is the case. Alternatively, you can use SAMBA -- the Windows file-sharing protocol -- to set up a permanent network connection between your home directory on the server and your personal computer. Instructions on how to do this are also available online.

Any files you place in your personal public_html directory will be visible on the web beneath the base address http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~username, where username is replaced with your username. (For instance, my username is charlie, and my personal web directory is http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~charlie.)