Publishing pages on www2.ucsc.edu
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Posting web pages

Here are some tips on how to publish pages on the www2 server using some of the most common page authoring tools.

Simple editors

With a simple editor (e.g. Notepad under MS-Windows, vi under UNIX), or a word processor (e.g. MS-Word), you save the page as a text or HMTL file on your local disk, then use an ftp client to transfer the file to the CATS AFS file system. Use fetch in MacOS, WS_FTP in MS-Windows, or ftp in UNIX. Use the CATS compute server you normally have access to (meow for staff, buddy/rufus/sasha for faculty, si/am/ese/angus for students and others), and specify the full pathname of your public_html directory. For example, a unit publishing a web page would ftp their web files to the meow.ucsc.edu compute server, and use /afs/cats/www/unitname/public_html as their web directory name.

MS FrontPage

FileMaker HomePage

Netscape Composer

Netscape Composer version 4 should be identical accross platform, but in case there are minor differences, this is based on Netscape Composer 4.04 running under Solaris 2.6.

• Under the menu item Edit/Preferences..., select the category Composer. In the Author name box, enter your full name, and your email, like this:

    Jacques Delsemme <jacques@cats.ucsc.edu> 

  Notes: This item doesn't seem to be used anywhere when publishing pages. Does it mean that it can be ignored?
• Under the menu item Edit/Preferences..., select the category Composer/Publish. In the Publish to (FTP or HTTP) box, enter the URL where you want to publish your page, like this:

    ftp://meow.ucsc.edu/afs/cats/www/unitname/public_html/
  

  You must use the ftp: protocol, since the http: protocol (i.e. the put method) is not implemented on www2/NCSA 1.5x.

  In the Browse to (HTTP): box, enter the equivalent URL that you would use in a browser:

    http://www2.ucsc.edu/unitname/
  

  Notes: I'm not sure what this is supposed to do, since when pressing the Browse button, it uses the file: protocol, rather than the http: protocol (is it because of AFS?).