All students, researchers, faculty and staff in the College of Engineering can have accounts and web pages on the College of Engineering computers. Some departments also have separate machines where you may be entitled to access and maintain web pages. To create a web page in the College of Engineering:

1. If you don't have an account already, open an Engineering account
2. Get familiar with your account and how it works. The ECI machines have web browsers installed for your use.
3. Create web page(s), keeping in mind your total disk quota.
4. Make sure you are in your home directory.
5. Create a directory called "public_html"
6. In that directory, create a text file called "index.html". This file will contain the information that is displayed on your home page.
7. Make sure that your directory and .html files are world-readable, by running the following commands:
   
   chmod 755 public_html
   chmod 644 public_html/index.html
   
   Also, make sure that your home directory is world executable; if not, use the following command:
   
   chmod o+x $HOME

You can now access your web home page via the URL "http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~login/" where "login" is your login name.

NOTE: Our server requires that your home page be named "index.html" if you want it to be accessed by using http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~login. If you've already created files named "index.htm" (or other name) which you want to be retrieved as the homepage in a directory, and don't want to rename them and their corresponding links, you can use a soft link as follows: cd $HOME/public_html ln -s ./index.htm index.html

You may, of course, name your files whatever you wish, but will need to reference your page as http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~login/pagename.