How to Publish your Page
1. The computer is organized as a file system. If you
are using a notebook or PC, you can click on the
"MyComputer" icon, to go to the next level of the
file system. Then you can click on "C:\ drive"
to go to the disk drive called C drive, and so on.
Therefore you are always at a certain node of the
file system, which conceptually looks like a tree
structure. If you want to copy a page (a file) from
one node of a file system to another node of
another file system, you need to be able to
identify that node, and then use some tool to
do the copying. The FTP tool serves that purpose.
When you complete the copying, you will then
make the page (file) visible to the outside world
by providing its URL to the public. So the
URL (Universal Record Locator or Uniform Resource Locator, see AllAcronyms.com) is like the address of this page (file).
(the following link is for Mac machines)
3. The above document describes how to publish your page by
first uploading your page using WinSCP or WinSCD. WinSCP
and WinSCD can be installed for free. If you are
using other tools the procedure is similar. The key points
are as follows:
Depending upon the FTP tool you use, you will be
prompted to enter login name and password in
some text box.
Then you must upload your page under the public/html directory.
So you need to first find the public directory and
change to this directory. Under the public directory
there should be the html directory. If the html directory
does not exist you need to make a directory called
"html". Then you can change to html directory. Now
you can upload your page under public/html directory.
Suppose you make another directory "cs134" under the
public/html directory and upload PageName.html under
public/html/cs134. The URL will be:
URL - http://www.pitt.edu/~UserName/cs134/PageName.html
For example if the UserName is schang and PageName.html is
test1.html then the true URL becomes:
URL - http://www.pitt.edu/~schang/cs134/test1.html
In general the URL is of the form:
URL - http://HostName/~UserName/DirectoryName/PageName.html
Please note "public/html" is NOT part of the URL.
4. The first time to connect via WinSCP, ssh, scp or sftp, use the host name:
linux-ts.it.pitt.edu
and the fingerprint is:
SHA256:L7NWogPp5FGdGOsPEdgcA+UB+LTR4DjxsOtqWB4SRI4
(Not required for WinSCP. Actually there are other fingerprints.)
Web Site Design by Story Telling
A well designed web site
tells stories to draw people in.
Stories or scenarios are important ingredients of well designed web sites.
Here are a few examples.
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