Below is the technical details on how the Engineering Computer Network has set up their Web Server. Based on this information, you can create a departmental homepage, your personal homepage or another type of homepage. In the details below, I am using a user's question on how to set up a Club Homepage but he did not know if he wanted it to be in his home directory or under the DocumentRoot directory.

Details:

1. login name = home directory
2. unix translates ~login-name to home directory
3. httpd translates ~login-name to home directory/public-web/
4. http translates, if no ~login-name, to /DocumentRoot

DocumentRoot is usually the convention:

	/home/<host>/<partition>/www/htdocs/

<host> is the machine which serves your departmental or personal homepage.

1. If you want the club homepage to reside in your home directory AND you want your own homepage separate from the club's homepage:

   The unix path for the club homepage would be:

   	~user/public-web/ClubDir/Index.html
   

   The url for the club homepage would be:

   	http://host.ecn.purdue.edu/~user/Clubdir/ >>> Club Homepage
   

   The unix path for your homepage would be:

   	~user/public-web/Index.html
   

   The url for your home page would be:

   	http://host.ecn.purdue.edu/~user/ >>> Your Homepage
   

2. If the club has a login;

   The unix path would be:

   	~user(login)/public-web/Index.html >>> Club Homepage
   

   The url for club login would be:

   	http://host.ecn.purdue.edu/~user/   >>> Homepage
   

   Your Site Specialist would have to create a login for your club. You can also have a group in addition to this login so the others in your group can write to the file(s).

3. If the club homepage is to be located under /DocumentRoot, you cannot use ~login, you can have an owner and a group;

   the convention of this unix path would be:

   /home/<host>/<partition>/www/htdocs/Index.html >>> Dept. Homepage
   

   For example, Engineering path is /home/ups/var/www/htdocs/Index.html >>> Schools of Engineering Homepage

   and ECN's path is

   	/home/ups/var/www/htdocs/Index.html/ECN/Index.html >>> ECN Homepage
   

   your url could be:

   	http://host.ecn.purdue.edu/DeptDir/ClubDir/ 
   

   DeptDir being your department name (or whatever your dept. is calling this directory). The unix path for this being:

   	/var/www/htdocs/DeptDir/ClubDir/Index.html
   

   No public-web (that's for ~ or logins).

   And your group would have permissions under ONLY the directory ClubDir.

   So your club would reside in the directory under /var/www/htdocs with (most likely) other departmental pieces and pages. But the directories would be controlled by the various owners/groups and the top level /var/www/htdocs/Index.html has executable permission only and is usually owned by the webmaster or root (different sites are doing it differently). The directories below it (such as yours) have rw + x on for your group.

   You would have to contact your site webmaster to create this directory.