Making a Simple Website

Download the file index.html from the navigation area. Use fileZilla to transfer it to your server account; to start, place it in your home directory..

<!doctype HTML>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>A Very Simple Website</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
<h2>The Web Page of <em>your name</em></h2>
</body>
</html>

This is a little exercise in dealing with the file system and with file permissions.

The Products The server will display a (locally) visible web page at the URL http://cs.ncssm.edu/~yourUserName. To get this to work right, you need to have this file tree in your account.


                           -------------  (home directory)
                           |    ~      |  permissions:  u: rwx g: x o: x
                           -------------
                                |
                          --------------- (directory)
                          | public_html | permissions:  u: rwx g: rx o: rx
                          ---------------
                                |
                          --------------- (regular file)
                          | index.html  | permissions:  u: rw g: r o: r
                          ---------------

Write down the commands you executed to get this working. Place them in a file named simpleSite.sh.