Shell account page creation Creation of a home page from a shell account

If you have a shell account at MV Communications, you can create your home page simply by issuing the command: 

  homepage

Notice that this command must be given at the UNIX command level, not from within a menu or from any other facility.

The homepage command will, barring problems, create a home page for you. Pay particular attention to the information that it gives you about the URL for your home page, and about the directory in which your home page is located. This command will also make a sample default document, named index.html, which you can use as a starting point for your own personal page.

The directory for your home page has a long and possibly hard to remember name. For convenience, you can use a symbolic link (which is a UNIX facility for making a file which can be used to refer to another file or directory) to this homepage area from your home directory. Using the name of the directory, issue a command such as: 

   ln -s home-page-dir WWW

(substituting the long directory name for "home-page-dir" above). This will make a symbolic link -- a file -- named WWW, which actually refers to the directory for your home page. When you go into this WWW directory, e.g. via: 
    cd WWW

you will actually be going into the directory for your home page.

Once you are in your home page's directory, you can edit HTML files for your home page. Or, if you prefer, you can prepare them on your own computer and upload them to this area. Remember to go back to your home directory once you are done. Do this with just a 

    cd

command.

If you happen to forget the URL or the directory that your home page is in, you can issue the homepage command again. It won't create another home page for you, but it will tell you this information.

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