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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
February 2006 Colby College ITS
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
February 2006 Colby College ITS
Requesting Personal Web Space (2)
• You will receive mail informing you that the space has been created
February 2006 Colby College ITS
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
February 2006 Colby College ITS
Transferring the Site to a Server (2)
These should now match
February 2006 Colby College ITS
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
February 2006 Colby College ITS
Accessing Your Site (2)
• Example:http://www.colby.edu/personal/m/mregnell/index.htmhttp://www/colby.edu/~mregnell will also work
