Personal
Web Pages
The TRACKS account enables faculty,
staff, and students to post personal web pages. The
pages can be found on the web at
http://my.fit.edu/~[Your TRACKS username].
Types of web pages supported on my.fit.edu: HTML (static pages) and PHP (dynamic pages).
Information for making HTML and PHP pages can be found below:
These pages should be academic or
research in nature. Commercial use is prohibited. This
section outlines the steps you will need to take to
post your pages.
Posting Web Pages
Step 1: Accessing Your Udrive.
Step 2: Verifying Your Web Page Folder
is setup properly.
- After you have successfully connected
to your Udrive in Step 1 above, verify that
a directory called public_html exists. If the directory
does not exist, create it.
- For unix users type mkdir public_html
- Windows and Mac users should create a new folder
as normally performed in your operating system.
- Verify that the directory has the
correct permissions. Permissions should be set to
allow others and group to read and execute, and user
to read, write and execute (unix 755). The setting
permissions document details how to set and verify
permissions.
Step 3: Posting your Pages.
- After you have gained access to
your Udrive (Step 1) and have a properly setup
public_html directory (Step 2), you are ready to post
pages.
- Simply save your html files in the
public_html directory. The default page should be
named index.html.
- To view the default page, simply
type the URL http://my.fit.edu/~[Your TRACKS username],
and the file index.html should appear in your browser.
Password Protecting Web Pages
The following instructions provide users the ability to create password protected web pages their Udrive on my.fit.edu. You can create a single username and password, or have multiple username and password pairs.
- Use secure shell to connect to my.fit.edu (Instructions on using SSH).
- Connect using your TRACKS username and password.
- Change to the directory (under public_html) you want to secure with a password.
- Type the following command securedir.sh to copy a template (.htaccess) into the current directory.
- Type pico .htaccess to edit the template
- (Optional) On the line labled AuthUserFile, verify that the path entered is where you want your passwords to be stored (Defaults to current directory).
- On the line labled require user, add the usernames you want to use seperated by a single space after the word user.
- Press CTRL-X to exit pico and confirm to save the file.
- To create the passwords, type the command htpasswd .htpasswd (username you want to set the password for). You will be prompted to confirm the password twice.
- Repeat for each additional user.
- (Optional) If you did not accept the default password location in step 6, move the file to the directory you specified.
- Test your website.
Example: A faculty member with a user name of jsmith wants to secure a directory on his website on my.fit.edu. This directory is named CSE2001 for the course he is teaching. He wants only the students taking the course to be able to read the material in that directory. Actual commands are in bold.
- Dr. Smith uses SSH to log into my.fit.edu.
- He changes to the CSE2001 directory: cd public_html/CSE2001.
- He executes the script by typing at the command linet: securedir.sh and the template files are moved into the directory /udrive/faculty/jsmith/public_html/CSE2001 (the current directory)
- He opens the .htaccess file by typing at the command line: pico .htaccess.
The htaccess file before modification:
AuthUserFile /udrive/faculty/jsmith/public_html/CSE2001/.htpasswd
AuthName EnterPassword
AuthType Basic
require user
- The user decides to keep the passwords in the local directory so he does not modify the first line (AuthUserFile).
- The user wants to add two users to authenticate one called gsa, and another called csstudent. He does this by addiing each name after user on the line with require.
The htaccess file after modification:
AuthUserFile /udrive/faculty/jsmith/public_html/CSE2001/.htpasswd
AuthName EnterPassword
AuthType Basic
require user gsa csstudent
- He then creates the passwords for each user by using the htpasswd command and confirming the passwords.
htpasswd .htpasswd gsa
htpasswd .htpasswd csstudent
- He then checks the website at http://my.fit.edu/~jsmith/CSE2001 to see if he is prompted for a username and password and if the passwords he entered are correct.
