Publishing your own webpages at Oamk’s students server

What you have to do in your Unix home directory

You can publish your own web pages at the students.oamk.fi server. These instructions are for Oamk students. (If you are a member of Oamk staff, see Personal WWW home pages, Oamk staff.)

You need to make a directory called public_html which is the default directory for your personal web pages. You need also to give reading permissions to the world for the directory to be publicly available on the server.

1. First make a ssh-connection to the students.oamk.fi server (or staff.oamk.fi). Please note that you need to use VPN unless you are on Oamk’s campus.
2. Use your student user name and the related password for login.
3. Make a directory called public_html to your home directory by giving this command on the command line:

   mkdir public_html

4. Then grant reading rights to the world with the chmod command:

   chmod 755 public_html

5. Now check that everything went as expected:

   ls -la

   Now you should see these characters in the beginning of the line that describes your public_html directory:
   drwxr_xr_x
   This means that you have all the possible rights: read, write and execute (rwx), and all the rest (group and the world) both have the rights to read and execute (r_x) this directory (d).

Making a homepage using an editor

Making webpages is a rather easy task if you are not aiming for perfection regarding standards; browsers are tolerant of minor mistakes. Webpages consists of HTML code that describes the structure of the document. It’s not so hard to learn HTML and it will pay off rather than learning just how to use a so called “wysiwyg” editor. (A wysiwyg editor displays your work onscreen during editing almost as the final web page that will be displayed on a browser window.)

Your Web page address (URL)

Students’ web page addresses look like this:

https://www.students.oamk.fi/~uname/, where uname is your  username.

If you don’t have a file called index.html (or index.php) in your public_html directory (or any of its subdirectories) the browser will show the contents of that directory as links. If you don’t want the directory contents shown as a list, then make an index.html file to that will be shown instead of the directory listing.

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