Connecting to our server

For this course, your web space is served by cs.utm.utoronto.ca. Your home directory is remotely mounted both by cs.utm.utoronto.ca as well as on our lab machines. This means that, from any machine that accesses your home directory, you can edit your webpages. To be specific, you can edit your webpage from any of our lab machines (for example). ssh UTORID@dh2020pcXX.utm.utoronto.ca

Web setup in the lab

  1. Prepare your environment. On a lab machine... cd ~ chmod 711 ~ mkdir www chmod 711 www cd www so your webspace is ~/www.
  2. Editing documents on the server: You have a few options. One option is to edit the files locally (ie using Notepad++) and then upload them (ie scp) to your home directory (~/www). Other options include using a unix editor directly on one of the lab machines. Options here include vi, vim, nano, emacs.
  3. Creating your first webpage # create file index.html with contents ... <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Hello World</title> </head> <body> I am ID and this is my first webpage. </body> </html> # and get it into the server, in ~/www # check that the permissions are correctly setup ls -al index.html # -rw-r--r-- 1 arnold ssl-cert 44 Jan 9 00:35 index.html # if they are not set correctly, fix the files permissions by ... chmod 644 index.html # now view this in a browser at # http://cs.utm.utoronto.ca/~UTORID/index.html # View your neighbours web page as well. # Go to http://validator.w3.org/ and validate your web page.
  4. <X> .... </X> is an element consisting of start tag <X> and end tag </X>
  5. Make sure you set your new documents permissions properly.