3. Home Page

You can host your own home page on any of our UNIX servers. Put your HTML files under the directory called public_html under your UNIX home directory. Then create a file called index.html (or index.php if you are developing PHP scripts) under the public_html directory. This should be the first page that will load when anyone visits your home page. Your home page will be accessible through the following URL:

http://pami.uwaterloo.ca/~username

If you use the Z: drive on Windows to write files to your public_html directory please note that they will have read/write permission to you only. Files in your public_html directory need to be readable by everyone so that they can be served by the web server. To make the files accessible from the web you need to change the permissions on the files/directories from UNIX, e.g.:

$ cd public_html
$ chmod o+r index.html      <-- change permission on file