Moving Your MathLab Webpage to UIC Computer "icarus":
Instructions

Hanson, Fall 1998


Assuming You are Logged into a MathLab 200SEO Computer:

  1. Double Click on the Terminal Icon on Dock at the Right;

  2. In the Terminal Window, Type the Communication Command:

    telnet  icarus.uic.edu

    and Press the Enter Key;

  3. On the icarus Command Line, Enter the Unix Make-Directory Command:

    mkdir  public_html

    and Press the Enter Key (if you already have a public_html directory on icarus (you should), you will get a message saying that, ignore it, and just continue fixing the file permissions next);

  4. Type the Unix Change Mode Commands to Make Your Web and Home Directory ReadableEXecutable (+rx) to All (a):

    chmod  a+rx  public_html

    chmod  a+rx  ~

    and Press the Enter Key each time (Watch Out for the Tilde "~"! You can check permissions by the long list command "ls -l");

  5. Type the Unix Change Directory Command:

    cd  public_html

    and Press the Enter Key;

  6. Type the FTP File Transfer Command to Get to Your MathLab Web Files:

    ftp lou.math.uic.edu

    and Press the Enter Key;

  7. Finally, On the icarus Command Line, Type the Change Mode Command to Make Your Web Files Readable:

    chmod  a+r  *

    and Press the Enter Key (the "*" is a "wildcard" meaning any file);

  8. Also, if you have image source files that have animation, On the icarus Command Line, Type the Change Mode Command to Make Your Web Files Readable&Executable:

    chmod  a+rx  *.gif *.jpg *.tiff *.JPG
    

    and Press the Enter Key (add any image file formats that have been left off this list of GIF, JPG and TIFF files);

  9. Returning to Your MathLab OmniWeb (OW) Browser, Click on Open URL or Alt-O and Type in the Open URL Window:

    http://www2.uic.edu/~[Your-icarus-LoginID]
    

    (Watch Out for the Tilde "~"! If all you get is a gray browser window, try the browser "Reload (Alt-u)" command.);

Caution: If you have files that you want to keep private, you may want to check that making your webpage readable to all did not change that privacy: Type the Unix long list command: and if there is the mark on the for files and for directories other than there should be not problem. Otherwise, on icarus type without quotes and Press Enter.

Web Source: http://www.math.uic.edu/~hanson/las100/MoveWebpage.html

Email Comments or Questions to hanson@uic.edu