CS Web Pages

• Personal Web Pages
• Web Project Pages
• Course Information
• Research Groups
• Student Organizations

Personal Web Pages

Anyone with a CS computer account has the ability to create a personal web site hosted by CS servers. The files for your site will be stored in your home directory on the departmental filer, and will count against your quota. You can activate this web site by creating a directory called web_home inside your home directory. Your home direcory must be world executable, so the web server can look through it, and the web_home directory must be world readable and executable, and all files in it must be world readable:

	cd ~
	chmod o+x .
	mkdir web_home
	chmod 755 web_home
	cd web_home
	...make files...
	chmod 744 *

Once you create the directory, any files you place there will be accessible online at one of the following URLs, depending on your classification:

• http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/username/
• http://staff.cs.tamu.edu/username/
• http://students.cs.tamu.edu/username/

This web site will allow static content only. If you require dynamic content, you should either create a web project site, or utilize a different server.

Web Project Information

Anyone with a CS computer account has the ability to create a web site on the CS project web server. Like your personal home page, the files for your site will be stored in your home directory on the departmental filer, and will count against your quota. The difference is that the project server allows dynamic dontent. You can activate this web site by creating a directory called web_project inside your home directory. Your home direcory must be world executable, so the web server can look through it, and the web_project directory must be world readable and executable, and all files in it must be world readable:

	cd ~
	chmod o+x .
	mkdir web_project
	chmod 755 web_project
	cd web_project
	...make files...
	chmod 744 *
	chmod 755 *.pl

Note the last line in the code example above: if you want to use mod_perl, you will need to give your files a .pl extension and they will need to be world readable AND executable.

Once you create the directory, any files you place there will be accessible online at either one of the following URLs:

• http://projects.cs.tamu.edu/username/
• http://php.cs.tamu.edu/username/

This server has the following capabilities:

• PHP: PHP is provided as an Apache module.
• Perl: Perl scripts are executed using mod_perl.
• SSI/HTML: Server-side includes and standard HTML files are served on the Apache webserver.

The following restrictions are placed on the project servers:

• CSG may impose limits on project activities which affect system performance and/or restrict excessive traffic. These limits may be imposed without prior notice if needed to ensure server integrity. Users expecting high loads should coordinate their requirements with CSG .
• Web server configurations are subject to change between semesters. While our goal is to provide stability throughout a semester, technology evolution means some changes should be expected. Security and other critical issues may mandate changes at any time. CSG will notify current users as soon as practical about changes.
• These servers will not be poked through A&M's firewall, so users wanting to access their pages outside of the tamu.edu domain will either need to use VPN software (available here), or use a different server.

Course Information

Professors may publish information about courses that they are teaching in their home directory (/user/username/) on the departmental filer. This would be the appropriate place to publish syllabi, course notes, etc. You can activate this web site by creating a directory called web_courses inside your home directory. Like a personal home page, your home directory must be world executable, the web_courses directory must be world readable and executable, and all files in it must be world readable:

	cd ~
	chmod o+x .
	mkdir web_courses
	chmod 755 web_courses
	cd web_courses
	...make files...
	chmod 744 *

All rules regarding personal websites apply to this server as well. Once you create the directory, any files you place there will be accessible online at the following URL:

• http://courses.cs.tamu.edu/username/

Research Groups

Any faculty member has the ability to create a research web page which will be hosted by CS servers. The URL for these web sites will match one to these two patterns:

• http://research.cs.tamu.edu/groupname/
• http://research.cs.tamu.edu/username/

The files for the /username/ URL will be stored in your share directory (/pub/username/) on the departmental filer, and will count against your share quota. You can activate this web site by creating a directory called web_research inside your share directory. Like a personal home page, the share directory must be world executable, the web_research directory must be world readable and executable, and all files in it must be world readable:

	cd /pub/username/
	chmod o+x .
	mkdir web_research
	chmod 755 web_research
	cd web_research
	...make files...
	chmod 744 *

To setup the /groupname/ URL, you will need to email webadmin@cs.tamu.edu and request the URL, specifying where the files are located. The files for this site may be located on any publicly mounted path in the new CS NIS domain (anything under /user, /share, or /pub). This means that if you have a NAS device that CSG has added to the pub maps, you can store your web files there, and they will be accessible from the CS webserver.

Unless there is a specific reason, we would ask that you store your research web files in your share directory in a subfolder called web_research, simply to maintain consistency with the other web shares.

This web site will allow static content only. Also, the only URLs that will be served from CS servers will conform to the examples above. If you require dynamic content or special needs for your URL (such as a tamu.edu domain, or a different hostname), you should either create a web project site, or utilize a different server.

Student Organizations

A listing of organizations of particular interest to computer scientists and engineers is provided at http://www.cs.tamu.edu/people/student_org. An organization which would like to be added to this list may mail webadmin@cs.tamu.edu for consideration. Those organizations that are of interest to our students will be added, but only those organizations with close ties to the CS department will be given directory space for the location of a homepage.

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