CCIL: Web Page Information

Chester County InterLink
Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.ccil.org/
Friday, May 9, 2008

Web Page Information

This area provides a number of resources to help you work on web pages.

Where do the pages go?

Web Pages are placed in your public_html directory. When you first connect via ftp, you may need to create this directory if it does not already exist.

How do I upload pages?

You can upload your pages via ftp, sftp (secure FTP), scp (secure copy), or rsync.
You can also edit the pages directly by opening and editing the file(s) if you know how to do that.

The settings you need for FTP are:

Hostname: ftp.ccil.org
Port: 21
Mode:passive
Username: (your username)
Password: (your password)

FTP is the most common method and probably just fine for a personal website.
Our server has FTP installed nut to use it you'll need your own (client) FTP program such as Cute FTP or WSFTP which are popular shareware programs. Winscp is simliar except that it uses secure copy, the program is free. Use of WinSCP (or another secure client) is encouraged for security reasons.

How do I view them?

Your web page can be viewed at http://ccil.org/~username: for example, the prez account has a website, and web pages reside at http://ccil.org/~prez. Subdirectories can be used to organize a website, as in http://ccil.org/~prez/info.

How do I make a web page?

HTML is one of open standard used to create webpages. The acronym HTML means Hyper Text Markup Language. Basically you make markup tags to define things like a paragraph or line break, here is a good starter Weaving your Webpage by Kathy Miles. A good introduction at http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/ provided by the people at the The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Their are many programs that help make webpages, for example Netscape Communicator has a Composer program.

If you want to learn more and make better pages, you will want to learn HTML. And their are many resources on the web on how to create HTML documents.

Here is one of the oldest resources.
NCSA -- A Beginner's Guide to HTML http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerP1.html

Can I use PHP?

PHP is a server-side web programming language for developing client/server web applications where the client is a web browser and the server is a program. Server-side web programming means that an HTTP request from a browser causes the web server to run a program which both generates the HTML and can access/retrieve other data stored on the server. It then sends the results (the page to display) back to the browser.
Normally users can not run PHP however you may state your reasons and make a request to be allowed to use it.

I have more questions, who do I ask?

Send an email to the ccil-user mailing list. Everyone is welcome to join the list. The list is a general use list for ccil users, it is a good place to ask for help from your neighbors.

Send an email to the ccil-help mailing list. The list is the CCIL Help Desk volunters.

Email the help desk at help@ccil.org.

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