February 2006Colby College ITS Publishing a Personal Web Site

February 2006 Colby College ITS

Publishing a Personal Web Site

February 2006 Colby College ITS

Topics

• Creating your site locally

• Requesting personal web space

• Moving the site to the server

• Accessing your site

February 2006 Colby College ITS

Creating Your Site Locally

• Create your site on your local computer

• Example– Home page named

“Index.htm”– All picture in a folder

named “images”– Various other folders for

organizational purposes

• Complete your site and test it locally

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Requesting Personal Web Space (1)

• http://www.colby.edu/web/howtos/access/#personal• Enter your Colby account name• Click Submit• Your space will be created within 24 hours

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Requesting Personal Web Space (2)

• You will receive mail informing you that the space has been created

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Transferring the Site to a Server (1)

• Run your FTP program(See FTP Tool Training Tutorials)– Windows WS_FTP– Mac Fetch

• Check that public_html has been created– This is where your site files will live

• Move entire directory structure to remote site– Under public_html

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Transferring the Site to a Server (2)

These should now match

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Accessing Your Site (1)

• Once you transfer your files to the web server, you can access through a web browser

• URL will be in the format:– http://www.colby.edu/personal/<firstinitial>/<username>/<filename>

– Where <firstinitial> is the first letter of your username<username> is your username<filename> is the name of the file you transferred (index.html)

– Example:http://www.colby.edu/personal/m/mregnell/index.htm

– http://www/colby.edu/~mregnell will also work

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Accessing Your Site (2)

• Example:http://www.colby.edu/personal/m/mregnell/index.htmhttp://www/colby.edu/~mregnell will also work

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Questions? Comments?

Contact: Mel RegnellMel.Regnell@colby.edu

ext. 4217