The personal web page option allows anyone with a uoneuro account to store HTML documents within their home directory and make them accessible to the rest of the world via the APACHE web server. A user with the login name "zorba"would have a home directory of "/home/zorba". The web server will look for his personal web pages in a subdirectory named "htdocs" within his home directory.

For example, if our web server receives a request for the following URL:

http://www.neuro.uoregon.edu/~zorba/mydoc.html

It will attempt to send a file named "/home/zorba/htdocs/mydoc.html" Note that in the above URL, the document path begins with ~zorba. The '~' tilde character tells the web server that a user name follows.

NOTA BENE :

There is no default file name for the top level document in your home directory. You must call out the file name in the URL. In practice, this will be done by the ION home page, which will link to your personal page. One good way to get started with HTML formatting (in order to publish your own documents) is to use the "view source" option in netscape to see how other documents are constructed. For a beginner's guide to HTML, check out this HTML Primer .

To get other web documents/sites to link to your personal home page, e-mail the web_master of the site and request that your home page be pointed to by their document.

-don 11/18/99