Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
- XHTML
- Account Preparation
- Tags
- Document Tags
- Text Tags
- Image Tags
- Link Tags
- List Tags
- Table Tags
Chapter 8

Preparing Your Account

To put your webpage on the World Wide Web, you must first set up your Unity space to host a webpage.

There is a simple and easy way to do this. NCSU provides a setup tool for you. Rather than manually setting up your account, you can allow this tool to do the work for you. It is located here: http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/web_pages/www4_setup.html

You may also do this manually. The tool provided by NCSU will automatically go through each of these steps for you. A www directory will be created, all the correct permissions are set on your directories, and if an index.html file does not already exist in your www directory, one will be copied there for you that says your site is under construction. While it is recommended that you use the tool, understanding how your account should be set up is also important. If you ever wanted to remove permissions so that your site could no longer be viewed by the public, take note below of what permissions are set and remove them.

Manual Setup:

First, create a www directory inside of your home directory.
Next, set permissions on your home directory to give www:servers look access.
Then, set permissions on your www directory to give www:servers read and look access.
As soon as you save an index.html file into your www directory, you can access your webpage via: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~loginid
To perform maintenance on your site, you may want to temporarily remove viewer access. To do so: