Regional University Computing Center Kaiserslautern-Landau

Your own homepage: Here's how!

Providers are generally responsible for their own homepages, but some rules always apply:

  • You may not offer any commercial pages on the science network.
  • You may not disseminate any data with content that violates human dignity or is discriminatory (this goes without saying).

Note

To create the pages "simply", the office program LibreOffice can be used on the Linux systems.

Prerequisites

To follow the instructions below, you need an RPTU account and basic knowledge of HTML.

Setting up your own homepage

1. you can connect to the Linux terminal server via linda.rhrk.uni-kl.de using the Windows Remote Desktop function. A login window will then open, log in as usual with your username and password.

2. create a new folder within your home directory with the name .wwww. Now create a new index.html file within this folder.

3. you can now design the index.html file yourself (HTML, CSS, JS). If you have no experience with HTML, read the introduction to HTML, for example.

Using a template generator (e.g. initializr), you can underlay your page with a ready-made design.

4. the directories $HOME and $HOME/.wwww must always have the execute bit set for others, the files in them must be readable for others so that they can be accessed from the web server. To do this, you must adjust the access rights within your home directory.

Note: Make sure that you do not store any private documents within your home directory, as these are visible to the outside world due to the access rights set.

5. your finished homepage is then accessible with any browser ( Mozilla Firefox / Internet Explorer ) under the URL

"http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~username"

worldwide. After some time it will also appear on the homepage list.