CSE120 Sp17 Lab 1 - Setting Up Your UW Website

Goals

Setting Up Your UW Website

Step 1: Activate your UW shared web hosting

  1. Visit uwnetid.washington.edu
  2. Click on "Computing Services" on the left sidebar
  3. If under "Inactive Services", check the box next to "Dante/Vergil Account"
  4. If under "Inactive Services", check the box next to "Student Web Publishing"
  5. Click "Subscribe"

Step 2: Browse to your website

  1. Open a browser and visit http://students.washington.edu/<UWNetID>/, replacing <UWNetID> with your own UWNetID
  2. You should see a page with some text and an under construction icon

Step 3: Connect to the server using SSH

  1. Open Cyberduck
  2. Click "Open Connection" in the left-hand corner
  3. Select SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) in the drop-down menu at the top
  4. Type in vergil.u.washington.edu as the server name
  5. Enter 22 as the Port number
  6. Enter your UWNetID as your username
  7. Enter your UWNetID password as your password
  8. Click "Connect"
  9. If you get an unknown host key popup, click "Allow"

Step 4: Edit your index.html file

  1. Double click the public_html folder
  2. Right-click on index.html and choose "Edit with > Brackets"
  3. Change some of the text on the page, sharing details about yourself or why you are taking this class

Step 5: Add an image of yourself

  1. In the Cyberduck window, click the gear icon (Action) and select "New Folder..."
  2. Name your new folder "img", which is short for images
  3. Double click into the img folder
  4. Drag an image of yourself into the Cyberduck window to upload it to the img folder
  5. Go back and edit index.html and change one of the images on your site to be the picture of yourself:
    • To get full credit, it must be an image stored on your server space and not a web image
    • You will need to change the src field within the img tag in the HTML to be img/<image name>, where <image name> is the name of the image file you just uploaded (e.g. <img align=left src="img/justin.jpg">)
    • Your TA will better explain how to do this - ask for help if you need it!

Note: More resources can be found at: https://itconnect.uw.edu/connect/web-publishing/shared-hosting/


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