SISSA Computing FAQ: How to create a personal web page

Please note that the personal web pages in SISSA MUST be used only for work purposes. DO NOT insert images/music/video, etc. covered by copyright, as specified by the Sissa Network Computing Policy.

In SISSA you can have a personal web page, reachable as http://people.sissa.it/~yourusername/

You have to:

Connect via ssh to ssh.sissa.it
create a subdirectory (in your home dir.), called public_html and set read-permissions to all users:

mkdir $HOME/public_html
chmod a+rx $HOME/public_html

enable only execute permission to your home directory:

chmod a+x $HOME

create a file named index.html (or index.php if you use PHP code) into the public_html subdirectory. This is crucial: in our network system, your file must have this name for your page to show up as your default Home Page.

enable read permission to your html files (and php files):

chmod a+r $HOME/public_html/*.html

Please note:
There is a script, usable on ssh.sissa.it, that automatically does all these things for you and creates a default generic home page:

sissa-mkhome