Web Publishing at UIC

Getting Web Space - Personal Use

In order for you to use Web space on UIC servers for personal use, you must be a current UIC student, faculty, or staff member. You must also have an account set up. (If you do not, please go to <https://ness.uic.edu/htbin/autocr> to set one up.) Remember, if you are a student, your account will reside on Icarus. If you are a faculty or staff member, it will reside on Tigger.

Each account is granted a set amount of space on the servers. For students, it is 10 MB of space. For faculty and staff personal sites, it is 20 MB.

At this point, you should log into your account on Tigger or Icarus and type the following UNIX command:

ls -l

This is a UNIX command that will list all of your files and directories in your personal space on Tigger or Icarus. You are looking for a directory called public_html. THIS DIRECTORY IS WHERE YOU WOULD STORE YOUR PERSONAL WEB PAGES AND ALL RELATED FILES, INCLUDING GRAPHICS. All accounts created within the last three years should have this directory already set up. If you do not see this directory, you can enter the following three commands, hitting the [ENTER] key after each.

File Permissions

This site gives you information on how to transfer your files. However, you should also be aware that you must make these files available to the public by granting permission for others to view the pages and click on its different links. To do this, once you've transferred files into your Web directory, you should execute the following command from that directory:

chmod a+rx *.*

chmod is the UNIX command for changing the permissions of the user (you), the group you are a part of, and others (public). You can grant (or deny) read, write, and execute permission with the letters r, w, and x, respectively. The above command grants read and execute permissions for all users (including yourself) to all files within the current directory.