Publishing pages to GC's webserver

The rest of the world can see your web pages once they're in place on the GC webserver. Everyone at GC has an account on www.goshen.edu. When you connect (see left) to your account on www.goshen.edu, you'll find that you have at least two folders: mypages and deptpages.

mypages

Your mypages folder is for personal page publishing. For example, if Jill Clemens has a GC user id of jillgc and she places a file foo.html into her mypages directory, it will show up at:

http://www.goshen.edu/~jillgc/foo.html

All students have a quota of 40 MB of space on the webserver. Contact arachnid@goshen.edu to ask increasing this quota if you're involved in web-centric classes or extra-curriculars.

PC users oncampus can get directly into their mypages folder at M:\Web Pages\mypages

deptpages

What appears as your own deptpages folder, is actually a shared folder, pointing to most of the public content of the GC webserver. Let's say that Jill is working on a page named favorite_yeasts.html for the biology department. Going down into her deptpages folder, she'll find a bio folder. If she places her file into that bio folder, it whill show up to the rest of the world at:

http://www.goshen.edu/bio/favorite_yeasts.html

You shouldn't be able to write in just any folder under deptpages, but only in those to which you've been granted access. If you don't have access, and you need it, contact arachnid, or if you're a student, ask the GC staff whose project you're working on to contact arachnid.

Other conventions to watch

When a browser asks just for a directory name without an explicit page name (e.g., http://www.goshen.edu/, the server will first look for a file in that directory named index.html. So, you should name the first page in a hierarchy of pages index.html, or index.htm (for more advanced users: index.php3 and index.shtml also work.)