Creating your own personal home page

ACCC runs Web servers on Icarus and Tigger, which makes it easy for anyone with an account on any of these systems to publish home pages and other hypermedia. Commercial pages and those containing inappropriate materials are not permitted.

The steps required for publishing a Web page are:

  1. Develop HTML documents, graphic files, etc. on a computer of your preference, like a Windows PC or a Macintosh.

  2. Test your hypermedia work locally, opening your files on the hard drive with a browser.

  3. Obtain a computer account on a machine running a Web server, e.g. Icarus.

  4. On Icarus or Tigger, create the special directory public_html, if not there already.

  5. Upload your HTML and other hypermedia files to the public_html directory.

  6. Make sure all public_html files and subdirectories are world-readable: go (cd) to public_html and issue the UNIX command: chmod a+r *

  7. Try your pages on the Web. The URL would be:
    http://www.uic.edu/~netid/filepath
    where netid is your Icarus/Tigger login netid and filepath is the path and name of you HTML file. For example:
    http://www.uic.edu/~jsmith/home.html

  8. Keep improving your Web pages and keep them up-to-date.

For more information, see:

Last updated: March 25, 1999 – Instructional Technology Lab