Creating Access for the Web on solix

Checking the access rights to your home directory

In order to set up your directory for web publishing, you must have the correct access rights of your home directory so that everyone can execute files stored in it. To check your access rights, issue the following command from your home directory

ls -ld ~ 

Note: The above command uses the letter "l",not the number "1". 

You should see output similar to the following

drwx--x--x     dlette07

	or

drwx--s--x     dlette07

Note: dlette07 will be replaced by your solix user name

It is the final "x" that is important in the string "drwx--x--x". If you do not have the final "x", then you must change the access rights to your home directory. If you have the final "x", then you may skip the next paragraph, and continue with Creating your Web directory.

Changing the access rights to your home directory

This does not change the default permissions when you create a file. In order to allow someone to execute or read a file, you will still need to change the access rights manually for that file. this command only needs to be executed once.

Creating your Web directory

Once you have set up the permissions for your home directory, then it is time to set up permissions for your web directory. Here at FIU, your web directory must be named www

This has done three things

  1. created a directory called www in your solix account. The complete path to this directory would be ~dlette07/www, replacing dlette07 with your solix username.
  2. created a file in the www directory named index.html This file is where the HTML code for your home page is located.
  3. created a URL for you at the school. The URL would be http://www.fiu.edu/~jsmith01, replacing jsmith01 with your solix username.

How to edit your index.html file and view it in a browser simultaneously

It is possible to telnet to a school computer to edit index.html and to run a browser to view how your page looks.