Setting up your UNM web space

 

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Activating Your UNM Web Space

Before you can publish your Web pages on the UNM server, you need to tell the server that you want to activate your Web space. This is how you do that:

1. Open Telnet.
2. Log on with your CIRT user name and hit 'enter.'
3. Type in your password (be careful of lowercase and capital letters -- make sure the CAPS LOCK is not on).
4. You should see a $ prompt. At the $ prompt, type each command listed below, hitting ENTER after each one:
mkdir public_html (This creates the public_html directory where the HTML files for your Web site will reside)
cd public_html (This changes your public_html directory)
webupdate (This makes your pages readable by the world)
5. After you type in the last command and hit enter, you should get a message that you web space has ben activated. Once you are good to go, type "exit" after the prompt and close Telnet. You can now go back to Composer and begin building your own web site.
Your web site address will be: http://www.unm.edu/~yourCIRTloginID/

Note: your own login will be where "yourCIRTloginID" is in the above address. For example, my CIRT login ID is zvannote. So, my web site address is http://www.unm.edu/~zvannote/. That also means my UNM e-mail is zvannote@unm.edu. You can figure out what your login ID is by checking your UNM e-mail address. The part that comes before the "@unm.edu" is your login ID.

As soon as you publish your first page, anyone anywhere in the world can log on and view what you have up. Enjoy!
Setting up your site in Dreamweaver (MX2004, 8 or CS3)

Set up your Local Info to point to a local root folder (My Documents/My Site). When you click on Remote Info, enter the information below. Specify the FTP host as ftp.unm.edu and the Host directory as /nfs/user/x/xxx/public_html where x is the first letter of your NetID (e.g., t for tinker) and xxx is your NetID (e.g., tinker).