How to Create your Personal Pages in WWW

• What are "personal" pages?
• How to create personal pages ?
• How to register personal homepages in the H1 data base?

In the following myname has to be replaced by your login name and also the letter m in the full AFS path by the first letter of your login name

What are "personal" pages ?

• On a machine, which is configured as a web-server, only a restricted part of the file system is visible for the web.
• This part is well separated from the personal directories

e.g. on afs

/afs/desy.de/group/h1/www/ and ../iww/ are the directories which are readable by the web (the so called web-space)

/afs/desy.de/user/m/myname/ is my personal directory
(which is usually accessible by ~myname/) is not visible by the web

• The server of H1 is configured in a way that in addition to the web readable directories one subdirectory for each user is made readable on the web: the files in this subdirectory are called "Personal (Web) Pages"
• The present H1 configuration:

  /afs/desy.de/user/m/myname/www

  is the web-readable directory for the user myname

  a file welcome.html in this directory is my (personal) home page

  to read a personal page by a WWW browser one has to use the following UniformResourceLocators:

  to get the personal home page:
  http://www-h1.desy.de/~myname/,

  to get the file file_name.html
  http://www--h1.desy.de/~myname/file_name.html

• It is important to know, that all files of this directory are visible for the rest of the world, if the file-name is known (or guessed) !

How to create personal pages ?

Create a directory for personal pages under AFS

1. Login under your favourite WGS

2. Create a directory www/ under AFS

3. set the ACL (Access Control List) values for this AFS directory by the fscommand to enable the access to his pages.

E.g. use the following commands:

$ cd
$ mkdir www
$ fs setacl -dir www -acl desy-hosts read

This www directory is now readable by all other DESY computer users with AFS accounts.

The directory is also visible under the following WWW-URL http://www.desy.de/~myname/
If this is not conveniant for you and you want to restict this directory to the H1 webserver use instead of the last afs command:
fs setacl -dir www -acl h1websrv read

For all further steps, it is assumed that you are logged on to your favourit WGS, i.e. you are working under AFS.

Create your "personal home page"

Create the file welcome.html in the directory www which is your personal home page.

Put to this file your personal information: e-mail, phone, mail address, your working area and links to your other documents.

Some hints for "personal pages"

• Put other HTML documents, PS files and other information relevant to your work to your directory www (only this directory is accessible by the web, and hence to the rest of the world).
• It is a good idea to put your name (or a link to your personal page) and a date when you have modified the page for the last time to the bottom of your page(s). You can use on our unix machines the command sign_www file_name, which does all this for you
• You should be quite careful in composing your personal page and other files in your /www/ directory. They should contain mainly things concerning your work at DESY. You should avoid the installation of very big pictures and movies which occupay memory space and use, when transmitted, much bandwidth of the links.
• If you need some icons and logos for your pages look to our collection first! (afs/desy.de/group/h1/images/).
• If you want to make links & images visible also for a request via //www.desy.de/ you have to provide exceptionally the full path of file
  

  e.g.for images from our collection

  http://www-h1.desy.de/images/file_name

  or http://www-h1.desy.de/icons/file_name

  e.g. for images or files in your personal www directory:

  http://www-h1.desy.de/~myname/file_name

• Removing of expired information helps also saving memory space !
• ... and finally: All activities on the web must comply a few DESY specific publishing and layout rules, which are obligatory for each user page. Please, read the Rules for Preparing and Providing Information in the World Wide Web (Regeln für das Erstellen und Anbieten von Informationen im WWW) on the WWW.

Start your browser & test your pages.

How to register personal homepages in the H1 data base?

• If you want, you can register your personal hompage in the H1 data base using the registration form (restricted to active H1 members)
• "Registration" means your homepage is linked to the information (phone nr., e.mail etc) stored about you in the H1 data base. Try the lists or the find form of the H1 directory page to get this information. Find your name in the list of by the find form and than click to your name. Anmong other information, you get a link to your personal homepage if it is registered.
• Furthermore a page listing all registered homepages is available (updated once per day)