Last revised: 30 September 1996

Frank Würthwein, fkw@hep.caltech.edu

The CITHEP WWW server supports the use of ``personal pages'' maintained by individual users, similar to the .plan files display by the finger command. Someone at a remote site can specify the URL http://www.hep.caltech.edu/~username and the information provided on username's personal page will be displayed. Remote users have NO access to the user's actual home directory, or to any other documents except what the explicitly provides.

To set up a personal page, create the directory public_html/ under your login. Use the Unix commands

	% cd
	% mkdir public_html
	% chmod ugo+rx public_html
to create that directory and ensure that is world-accessible.

Within that directory (cd ~/public_html/), the file index.html will be accessed automatically as your personal page, just like any other hypertext document. If the file index.html does not exist, the CITHEP server will look for a plain text file README.

If you do not want to write a full hypertext document for your page, you can make your normal .plan available, by using it as the README file. Use the Unix command

	% ln -s ~/.plan ~/public_html/README
to create a symbolic link to your .plan file. Of course, this file cannot contain any HTML markup, and does not take advantage of any of capabilities of WWW.

If you want to point to other personal documents from your page, you must put those documents (or symbolic links to them, via ln -s) inside your public_html/ directory. For security reasons, our HTTP server will not provide access to arbitrary files on the CITHEP disks. Within your personal page, your hyperlinks should give simply a filename; the rest of the URL will be supplied automatically by the remote user's WWW browser.

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