Moving Your MathLab Webpage to UIC Computer "icarus":
Instructions
Hanson, Fall 1998
Assuming You are Logged into a MathLab 200SEO Computer:
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Double Click on the Terminal Icon on Dock at the Right;
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In the Terminal Window, Type the Communication Command:
telnet icarus.uic.edu
and Press the Enter Key;
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After the Prompt "Login:", Type
[Your-icarus-LoginID]
and Press the Enter Key (Note any thing in
square brackets {"[ ... ]"} needs to be replaced by you
with something particular to your account);
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After the Prompt "Password:", Type
[Your-icarus-Password]
and Press the Enter Key;
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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);
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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");
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Type the Unix Change Directory Command:
cd public_html
and Press the Enter Key;
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Type the FTP File Transfer Command to Get to Your MathLab Web Files:
ftp lou.math.uic.edu
and Press the Enter Key;
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After the Prompt "Login:", Type:
[Your-MathLab-LoginID]
and Press the Enter Key;
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After the Prompt "Password:", Type:
[Your-MathLab-Password]
and Press the Enter Key;
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After the FTP Prompt "ftp>", Type to Change to Your Web Directory:
cd public_html
and Press the Enter Key;
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After the FTP Prompt "ftp>", Type the Binary Files Option:
bin
and Press the Enter Key;
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After the FTP Prompt "ftp>", Type the Multiple Get Files Command:
mget *
and Press the Enter Key;
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If You Need the File, Press the Enter Key or Type
y for yes;
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Else Type n for no;
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When Done Transferring FIles, After the FTP Prompt "ftp>", Type:
bye
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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);
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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);
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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.);
- If Your WebPage Pops Up on icarus, Then logout
of icarus and You Are DONE!
- If Your WebPage Does NOT Pop Up on icarus,
Then CALL Prof. Hanson or Ms. Asna Afzal.
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
(which should look like
"drwxr-xr-x 22 [icarus-id] 10240 Sep 30 16:43 public_html/")
there should be not problem. Otherwise, on
icarus type
"chmod go-rwx *;chmod a+rx public_html"
without quotes
and Press Enter.
Web Source: http://www.math.uic.edu/~hanson/las100/MoveWebpage.html
Email Comments or Questions to
hanson@uic.edu