Creating a Home Page

At CMU, it's easy. Just put your information in AFS and make it publicly readable.

Unfortunately, the Ohio State service has been discontinued. Please let me know of any public Home Page storage providers!

Get an AFS account

	echo Please give me an AFS account | mail -s "AFS account" help@cs

Create a top-level www directory

	mkdir /afs/cs/usr/MYNAME/www

Copy a friend's home page, generate one using a a tutorial, or use your favorite editor to start from scratch.

	cp /afs/cs/usr/mdwheel/www/mdw.html /afs/cs/usr/MYNAME/home.html

Give it a simple name, you'll get tired of typing it

	home.html  or  index.html

Make it readable to AFS users

	fs sa /afs/cs/usr/MYNAME system:anyuser rl
		[or just l if you don't care about CMU White Pages]
	fs sa /afs/cs/usr/MYNAME/www system:anyuser rl

	cat > /afs/cs/usr/MYNAME/www/.htaccess <<END
	<Limit GET>
	order deny,allow
	allow from all
	</Limit>
	END

	echo www/home.html > /afs/cs/usr/MYNAME/www/.www.home.url
	ln -s /afs/cs/usr/MYNAME/www/.www.home.url /afs/cs/usr/MYNAME/

Create this symlink to give yourself a shorter URL:

	ln -s /afs/cs/usr/MYNAME/www /afs/cs/Web/People/MYNAME

With this in place, you can advertise your home page using the ~ shorthand:

	http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~MYNAME/home.html

And if you call your page index.html it gets even shorter:

	http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~MYNAME

When your page is ready to be advertised, submit it to catalogs and What's New pages.