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We recommand these steps to publish your web pages on Lamont's official web site.

1. Personal/Professional Web Pages

These pages are personal/professional web pages that are composed by the user and reside in a folder in the user's home directory (Unix filesystem).

Step 1. Create your web page on your desktop. There are many easy to use html producers such as Microsoft Word. Name the file index.html

Step 2. Using any ftp client, such as fetch, create a folder called public_html in your home directory and place your index.html in it (Use ftp/fetch to transfer the files). You can use fetch to create the folder or telnet to a UNIX server and use 'mkdir public_html' command.

Ftp Host: ftp.ldeo.columbia.edu

Ftp Username: USERNAME

Ftp Password: Your Unix (email) password

(At this point your are in your home directory server disk space, "Home Directory")

(Transfer the index.html file over to ftp.ldeo.columbia.edu)

Step 3. Connect to your web site at the address:

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~USERNAME

Step 4. Add your web page to phone directory profile.

Note: Server side disk space can be obtained upon availibilty, and need. Such requests should be made to 'LDEO Web System Manager'. In those cases, after such requests are granted,

Step 1. Same as above

Step 2. Using any ftp client, such as fetch, create a folder called

Ftp Host: www.ldeo.columbia.edu

Ftp Username: USERNAME

Ftp Password: Your Unix (email) password

(At this point your are in your home directory server disk space, "Home Directory")

(At the ftp> prompt type:

ftp> cd /system/ldeo-web/docs/users/USERNAME

(Transfer the index.html file over to www.ldeo.columbia.edu)

Step 3. Connect to your web site at the address:

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/users/USERNAME

Step 4. Same as above

2. Projects and Facilities Web Pages

In general, these web pages are built on the disk space dedicated to the project, group, or division. They are then linked directly under one of the existing categories on Lamont's web site research pages.

If such disk space is not available to the project, or the disk space required is minimal, then some disk space on the web server can be alloted for the project's web pages.

Once the web project's pages are completed, a request should be made to LDEO Web System Manager with the name of the project, a short paragraph about the project or the facility, and categorizing the site as Database&Reporisorty, Projects&Initiatives, Facilities, or Research Tools.

HTML Help and Tutorials

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/authoring/html_basics/
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

Creating Password Protected Directories

What you are trying to do is called "user authentication". The best place to learn about user authentication is from the source (NCSA). They have a very easy to understand tutorial at the following URL:

http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/user.html 

Sample .htaccess:

     AuthUserFile /the-path/.htpasswd
     AuthGroupFile /dev/null
     AuthName "Bill's Restaurant"
     AuthType Basic

     <Limit GET>
     require user William
     </Limit>

To set up the password for "William" issue the following command:

	    % /usr/local/bin/htpasswd -m -c /home/directory/[login]/.htpasswd William

Use the htpasswd command without the -c flag to add additional users; e.g.:

	    % /usr/local/bin/htpasswd /home/directory/[login]/.htpasswd peanuts
	    % /usr/local/bin/htpasswd /home/directory/[login]/.htpasswd almonds
	    % /usr/local/bin/htpasswd /home/directory/[login]/.htpasswd walnuts