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Publishing a Personal Web Site. Topics. Creating your site locally Requesting personal web space Moving the site to the server Accessing your site. Create your site on your local computer Example Home page named “Index.htm” All picture in a folder named “images”
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Publishing a Personal Web Site Colby College ITS
Topics • Creating your site locally • Requesting personal web space • Moving the site to the server • Accessing your site Colby College ITS
Create your site on your local computer Example Home page named “Index.htm” All picture in a folder named “images” Various other folders for organizational purposes Complete your site and test it locally Creating Your Site Locally Colby College ITS
Requesting Personal Web Space (1) • http://www.colby.edu/web/howtos/access/#personal • Enter your Colby account name • Click Submit • Your space will be created within 24 hours Colby College ITS
Requesting Personal Web Space (2) • You will receive mail informing you that the space has been created Colby College ITS
Transferring the Site to a Server (1) • Run your FTP program(See FTP Tool Training Tutorials) • Windows WS_FTP • Mac Fetch • Check that public_html has been created • This is where your site files will live • Move entire directory structure to remote site • Under public_html Colby College ITS
Transferring the Site to a Server (2) These should now match Colby College ITS
Accessing Your Site (1) • Once you transfer your files to the web server, you can access through a web browser • URL will be in the format: • http://www.colby.edu/personal/<firstinitial>/<username>/<filename> • Where <firstinitial> is the first letter of your username<username> is your username<filename> is the name of the file you transferred (index.html) • Example:http://www.colby.edu/personal/m/mregnell/index.htm • http://www/colby.edu/~mregnell will also work Colby College ITS
Accessing Your Site (2) • Example:http://www.colby.edu/personal/m/mregnell/index.htmhttp://www/colby.edu/~mregnell will also work Colby College ITS
Questions? Comments?Contact: Mel RegnellMel.Regnell@colby.eduext. 4217 Colby College ITS