Setting up your CS web page

• create a directory named public.html
  • cd
  • mkdir public.html
  • chmod 0755 public.html
• create all web documents beneath the public.html/ directory.
  • index.html - your main web page that will link to all other documents.
  • Documents can be accessed using the web url: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~userid
• create cgi / php / pl / python / ... web scripts beneath public.html/cgi-bin/
  • Web scripts can be accessed using the web url: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~userid/cgi-bin/
• you may want to look at htaccess documentation if you need to furthur configure your web page access

Make your web page accessible

• see the policy at http://policy.rpi.edu/policy/Web_Accessibility_Policy

Consider designing your page to be mobile-friendly

• use the tester at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/ and follow suggestions for improving it

problems

• File permissions on web scripts are important, be careful when assigning them.
• Apache may refuse to launch scripts that have group or world write access or could be modified because parent directories have group or world write access.