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Web Publishing to a Campus Account Using Netscape Composer 7

The instructions in this document pertain to campus accounts only. If you publish to a departmental web server, please contact your server administrator for publishing instructions.

 

How to Configure Your Campus Network Account

Once you have configured your account, you won't ever have to do it again.

  1. In the "Location:" text box in your Netscape Navigator window, type the following and then tap the ENTER key:
    2.  

    telnet://telnet.csun.edu

  1. When the "login:" prompt appears in the telnet window, log in to your campus network account (e.g., xyz12345 or hcxyz123).
  2. At the command prompt (e.g., "csun>") type the following three UNIX commands (tapping the ENTER key after each one). You will get no confirmation that you've entered a UNIX command correctly; if you get no message, it means the command was accepted.
mkdir public_html 
chmod 711 $HOME 
chmod 755 public_html

The first command creates (makes) the directory where your Web documents will be located (public_html). The second allows other people access to your home directory (but NOT to read any files). The third allows access to the public_html directory and any files you transfer to that directory from your desktop computer (this does not include files you create directly in your account). 

How to Transfer (Upload) Your Web Page Files

Publish buttonIf the Web page file you want to publish isn't already open, open it in Netscape Composer. Click the Publish icon on the Composition Toolbar to display the "Publish Page" dialog box.

The Settings Tab

The first time you publish a page, options on the Settings tab will be displayed (see Figure 1, below). Enter the following information in the appropriate text boxes. The information you enter will be retained for future publishing. Note: For security reasons, it is recommended that you not enter or save the password for the account, but instead let Composer prompt you for a password when you publish pages.

  • Site Name: A descriptive name for the website you're publishing.
  • Publishing Address: Enter the publishing address in the following format:

    ftp://ftp.csun.edu/~account/public_html/

    where account is the campus account where the page will be published.

  • User name: The campus account where the page will be published.
FIGURE 1. "Publish Page" Dialog Box — Settings Tab
 

The Publish Tab

To publish a page, click the Publish tab. The following information should already be entered. Note: This tab will be displayed automatically if you entered Settings information during a previous Composer session.

    • Page Title: If you gave the page a title during the web design process, it will be entered here. If not, enter a title now. This is the information that will be displayed in the Title Bar of the browser window when someone visits the page.
    • Filename: The name of the file to be transferred (e.g., index.html).

Click Publish to transfer the file (see Figure 2, below). A message box will tell you if the transfer was successful (and you will have to click the OK button to clear the box from the screen). 

FIGURE 2. "Publish Page" Dialog Box — Publish Tab
 

Your Web Page Location (or URL — Uniform Resource Locator)

After you've finished the publishing procedure, you'll probably want to look at your Web site — and tell others where to find it.

If your main Web page file is called index.html your Web page address is:

http://www.csun.edu/~account

where account is your campus account (e.g., xyz12345 or hcxyz123). Make sure to include the tilde (~) character.

The Web page address for any page other than index.html is of the format:

http://www.csun.edu/~account/filename

where account is your account number (e.g., xyz12345 or hcxyz123) and filename is the name of your Web page file (homepage.html, for example). Again, make sure to include the tilde (~) character.

Questions?

If have questions about these procedures, please contact the University Help Desk at (818) 677-1400 or via email to helpdesk@csun.edu.

 
 

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August 14, 2003

Prepared by Gail Said Johnson, User Support Services

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