How to create your home page

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Setting up your account

To prepare your home directory for access by a Web server in the lab, you will need to modify the security for your home directory and create a couple of folders.

• Create a directory cs125 and move all your program directories to this directory. Make sure that the directory cs125 can only be accessed by you.  (For students in other classes, create a directory called myclasses and move all your class directories inside this directory).


     mkdir cs125
   mv prog* cs125
   chmod g-rwx,o-rwx  cs125

The command chmod changes the mode of the file. such that no one in the group (the students) or others have any access to the cs125 directory. You can check the permissions using the ls command as shown below.

ls -ld cs125

The output of the ls command should be similar to what is shown below.

drwx------   4 amit     faculty      1024 Sep 22 11:46 cs125

For more details on how directory and file permissions work, please check the section on File protection in the local Linux guide.
 

• Modify the permissions for your home directory such that is is open to group and others for read and execute permission. The following commands can be used (the tilde ~ represents your home directory)


cd ~
chmod g+rx,o+rx ~

Now check the permissions of your home directory with the ls commands as follows.

ls -ld ~

The output should be similar to the following:

drwxr-xr-x   53 amit     faculty      4096 Oct  1 10:37 /home/amit