NWE Help: Web: Intro: Homepage

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When your NWE account is first made, you only have one web page, a special page called your home page. You can access this page from the NWE in two ways.

When you access this page as a local file--like when you edit it with our HTML editor--you tell the computer you want:

/home/nwe/username/public_html/index.html

You can also access this page with a web browser--when you choose the "My homepage" bookmark. The web address for your home page is:

http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~username/index.html

or just

http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~username

You don't really need a trailing slash or index.html--our server will automatically provide those if they aren't typed. (There is no way to change the name of the page displayed as your home page. It must be named index.html.)

Your public_html directory is a special directory. Any files you place in your public_html directory will be available through the web server running at the NWE. In other words, files in your public_html directory are public and available world wide. They're on "the web." Keep that in mind when writing those love letters....

What you do with your home page and your public_html directory is up to you, as long as you don't violate NWE policies. However, your instructor probably has an idea or two for your web page. Ask her for suggestions, assignments, or other help.