general_method [COM Network Guide]

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Users on the teaching network may create and publish personal web pages, and these can be viewed at the address "http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/A.N.Other/" where your name is normally the one used in your DCS email address.

Users with an account on the research network have a standard 'contact' page located in the personnel pages. You may also create your own personal home page to provide additional information, and these may be referenced as above, or additionally via a link from your contact page.

Please note that you should read and must abide by the University code of practice regarding the content of your web pages. If we receive complaints about your content, we will contact you about it. Depending on circumstances (and there are obviously many grey areas), you may be required to modify your content, or remove it entirely. If the author is no longer available we will normally remove the material immediately.

Your personal web directory is a sub-directory "public_html" in your network home directory, and all files/directories you create must have world-read/execute permissions to be visible to the web server.

The easiest way to access your web directory is to use a special SMB share "\\server\mypublic_html" (where server is "stustore.dcs.shef.ac.uk" for students and "staffstore.dcs.shef.ac.uk" for researchers). For example, for the student "astudent", the file "\\stustore\mypublic_html\myfile.html" is available as "http://stuwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/AStudent/myfile.html". If you use this share then the file permissions are set correctly automatically.

Your web directory is also available as "\\stustore.dcs.shef.ac.uk\uname\public_html" (windows, students) or "\\staffstore.dcs.shef.ac.uk\uname\public_html" (windows, staff). If you use any of these, files/directories are created with normal permissions, i.e. full to the owner and none to anyone else, and you will need to remember to set permissions to world read and execute.

Alternatively you can SSH into stulogin.dcs.shef.ac.uk or stafflogin.dcs.shef.ac.uk, as appropriate, with your DCS account, and manage the public_html directory via the terminal emulator. Use mode 755 for directories and 644 for files, so that the they can be served by the web server.

Remember that "\\server\mypublic_html" and "\\server\uname\public_html" are the same location for the same user, but the permissions that are applied to files/directories are different.

All web material must be in your web tree, and you cannot make symbolic links to files or directories outside of this tree.