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Creating Faculty Web Pages

In these instructions, replace "hedonley" with your own username. Your main page, http://www.math.iup.edu/people/hedonley.html is at /web/people/hedonley.html. Any other pages that you create will be in your personal directory, /export/home/hedonley/public_html/.

Your Main Page

URL: http://www.math.iup.edu/people/hedonley.html
Unix Location: /web/people/hedonley.html

You must have an account on babbage.nsm.iup.edu to modify your main page. If you do not have an account, request one from Tom Kirkpatrick at tckirk@iup.edu. You must also be the owner of your main page. After you have an account on babbage.nsm.iup.edu, ask Ed Donley at hedonley@iup.edu to make you the owner of your main Web page.

Modifying your main page:

Method 1: Direct editing

  1. Telnet to babbage.nsm.iup.edu, or equivalently www.math.iup.edu.
  2. Edit the page directly using pico (which is the text editor that comes with the pine mail program) or vi text editor.
    $ pico /web/people/hedonley.html

Method 2: Editing with a desktop computer application

  1. Telnet to babbage.nsm.iup.edu, or equivalently www.math.iup.edu.
  2. Copy the file to your home directory using the Unix cp command.
    $ cp -p /web/people/hedonley.html /export/home/hedonley
  3. Map the network drive \\babbage\hedonley to your desktop computer. Right click on the "My Computer" icon on your desktop. Select "Map Network Drive...". A dialog box will appear. Select any drive letter that is not currently being used, for example, Z:. Enter \\babbage\hedonley in the Folder box. Check the "Reconnect at logon" checkbox if you want to skip this step in the future.
  4. The Z: drive should now contain hedonley.html. Edit the file using an application on your desktop computer, such as Dreamweaver or Notepad.
  5. In your telnet window, copy the modified file from your home directory to /web/people/hedonley.html.
    $ cp -p /export/home/hedonley/hedonley.html /web/people

Your Auxiliary Pages

URL: http://www.math.iup.edu/~hedonley/filename.html
Unix Location: /export/home/hedonley/public_html/filename.html

Modifying your auxiliary pages:

  1. If you do not already have a public_html directory within your home directory, you must create one and give others read access to it. Telnet to babbage.nsm.iup.edu, or equivalently www.math.iup.edu. Then type the following Unix commands:
    $ mkdir /export/home/hedonley/public_html
    $ chmod 711 /export/home/hedonley
    $ chmod 755 /export/home/hedonley/public_html
  2. Map the network drive \\babbage\hedonley to your desktop computer. If you are using Windows, right click on the "My Computer" icon on your desktop. Select "Map Network Drive...". A dialog box will appear. Select any drive letter that is not currently being used, for example, Z:. Enter \\babbage\hedonley in the Folder box. Check the "Reconnect at logon" checkbox if you want to skip this step in the future.
  3. The Z: drive should contain your public_html folder. Create files and folders as if they were on your desktop computer. Create and modify files using an application on your desktop computer, such as Dreamweaver or Notepad. The changes that you make will actually be on babbage.nsm.iup.edu, even though it appears that you are making changes to files and folders on your desktop computer.

Special Projects

If you are involved in a project that should be affiliated more with an organization (including IUP) than with you, such as multi-investigator grants or hosting conferences and workshops, then contact Ed Donley to create a directory for you in the department Web site's main directory. This will be located at

URL Location: http://www.math.iup.edu/projectname/
Unix: /web/projectname

where "projectname" is replace by a short name representing your project. Ed Donley will make you the owner of this directory so that you can place your project's Web pages there.

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