Staff & Postgraduate Home Pages

There is a facility for staff and postgraduate students to maintain a Personal Home Page on a Web Server at Murdoch.

To use this Web Server, you need to have a user account on the host wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au which was previously known as central. If you do not have an account on this machine, please print the application form,

http://www.its.murdoch.edu.au/forms/Staff-Homepage-Application-Form.html

complete the details ands return the completed form to the Office of Information Technology Services, Computer Systems operations area enquiry counter.

To prepare your Web pages you will need to use a HTML editor, or, if you are familiar with HTML tagging, you can use a text editor. Alternatively if you are using Microsoft Word you can use it to prepare your pages by choosing to save as HTML..

To publish your personal home page, you will need a ssh Client such as Putty and a secure FTP client such as WINscp.

The following steps should enable you to publish your Web pages:

Use a ssh client such as Putty to connect to wwwstaff. Some clients are available from ftp.murdoch.edu.au/pub/)
Once logged in, you should be in your 'home' directory, just to be sure, type:
```
cd [Enter]
```
The Web Server looks for your Web pages in the directory 'www', so create this with:
```
mkdir www [Enter]
```
So that "the world" can see your pages you need to give world execute access to your 'home' directory and 'www' directory:
```
chmod o+x ~ [Enter]
```
```
chmod o+x www [Enter]
```
Use your secure FTP client software to transfer your files from your computer to the www directory area you have created on wwwstaff
For the world (via the Web Server) to be able to access your files they need to be world-readable:
Use your telnet session to modify the file attributes, eg.
```
chmod o+r home.html [Enter]
```

You will need to repeat the last step for any new HTML files that you add to your www directory.

Your Web page should be accessible by appending the filename to the URL: http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/ a tilde (~) character followed by your username

e.g. For the username

stanton

the URL for a page with the filename sample.html would be http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~stanton/sample.html

Note: All Personal Web Pages accessible via a Server at Murdoch, including those made available from the Server http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/ should include a link to the University's official Disclaimer Notice.

Please refer to the Murdoch Web Server for staff and postgraduate students as wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au (not central.murdoch.edu.au) as there is no guarantee that this service will remain on the machine central.

If you need assistance with creating your Web pages, refer to:

HTML Training Resources

If you have problems carrying out the above procedure, then contact the IT Service Desk on 9360 2000.