• Create Your Web Page
• Create Your public_html Directory
• Transferring Your Files
• Setting File Permissons
• Adding CGI Scripts
• Adding a Counter to Your Page

After you follow the steps, your homepage url will be http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~your_username

Create your web page

• If you are writing the html yourself, it is recommended that you use Note Pad for the PC and TextWangler for the Mac.

• Microsoft Word:
  1. Open MS Word and choose New from the File menu
  2. Go through the steps to create your webpage with text and pictures
  3. Click File -> Save as Web Page
  4. Save as index.html

• Adobe Dreamweaver is an advanced webpage creation application. Click "Download free trial" and use its tutorials or take a BATS class to learn more. BATS student schedule is here.

Create the public_html directory(folder) and set general permissions

You will need to create a directory in your Rohan account to upload your webpage to and set permissions on it so the public can see your page.

Connect to Rohan with:

SSH for PCs (download SSH here, if needed)

Terminal for Mac OS X, the application is in the Utilities folder. Type ssh -Y username@rohan.sdsu.edu ("username" is your username).

After their password is input correctly, you will see "TERM = (unknown)" Just hit the Return key to get the "rohan%" prompt.



1. Log into your Rohan account
2. Create a "world readable" directory called "public_html"
   
   
• rohan% mkdir public_html [press enter]
  This command creates the public_html directory
  
  
3. PERMISSIONS RULES CHANGED FOR NEW ACCOUNTS - **If your ROHAN account was created after January 11, 2008, skip this step.**
   (ROHAN accounts created after January 11, 2008 will automatically have permissions for the home and public_html directories set to 711.)
   

• rohan% chmod 711 . [press enter] (make sure you type the "dot")
  This command sets the permissions for your home directory to be publically readable

 

• rohan% chmod 711 public_html [press enter]
  This command sets the permissions for your public_html directory to be publically readable
  

 

Transferring files to Rohan

You must transfer ALL files, images, etc. assosiated with your web page.

If you are using a PC you can use a program called SSH (download SSH here, if needed)
to transfer your files to your webpage.

If you are using a Macintosh you can use a program called Fetch.

Using either of these progams will automatically set the permissions for each transfered file if you have already set the permissons for your home and public_html directories as stated above under "Create the public_html directory. "

1. Open your file transfer program (either SSH or Fetch)
   
   
2. Log into the host name of rohan.sdsu.edu using your Rohan username and password
   
   
3. Transfer your index.html file and any pictures that will go on your page into your "public_html" directory.
   
   *** Note*** Images and MS Office files should be transfered in binary mode. The application should automatically choose "binary" for those types of files, but if you have issues with them, try manually changing the mode to binaray via the menu Remote -> Mode
   
   
4. Exit the program

Setting Permissions for files inside public_html directory

You must manually set the permissions for files that have not been put in the account via an FTP program (SSH or Fetch) or were uploaded before the permissions were set on the main directory so that other people may view these particular files.

Connect to Rohan with SSH for PCs or Terminal for Mac
1. Log into your Rohan account through a Telnet session
2. Change to your "public_html" directory by typing at the rohan% prompt:
   
   
   rohan% cd public_html [press enter]
   
   
   
3. Choose one of the following permission commands depending on the type of file
   
   
   rohan% chmod 644 file name [press enter]
   
   • Use this command for .html, .jpg, & .gif files
   
   or
   
   rohan% chmod 755 file name [press enter]
   • Use this command for .cgi & . doc files
   
   
   
4. rohan% logout [press enter]

Adding CGI Scripts

About how to incorporate CGI scripts into your webpage

Adding a Counter to Your Web Page on ROHAN

To add a counter to your web page, the following code must be located on the page you wish to count:

<img src=http://www.sdsu.edu/cgi-bin/nph-counter?url=YOUR_URL&width=5>

Replace "YOUR_URL" with the URL used to access your web page.
Example: < br><imgsrc=http://www.sdsu.edu/cgi/nph-counter?url=http://rohan.sdsu.edu/~jsmith/index.html &width=5> < p><imgsrc=http://www.sdsu.edu/cgi/nph-counter?url=http://rohan.sdsu.edu/staff/mjones/index.html&width=5>
 

* YOUR_URL must end with a slash(/), .html, or .htm.
* YOUR_URL must match the URL that is used to access your web page. Don't guess! Use a web browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.)to view your page and see what appears in the Location box.