Introduction to Archaeology

Anthro 304 / ARY 301 Spring 1998
Prof. Samuel M. Wilson
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas

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Reminder Sheet -- getting started on the web

This reminder sheet assumes that you have already got your IF account validated so that you can use the machine called uts.cc.utexas.edu

It also assumes that you have the following pieces of software - Netscape Communicator or Navigator Gold, and either WS-FTP or Fetch. If you haven't got them, you can get them free from www.netscape.com or the UT-CONNECT disks. But you can also do all the things described here using other programs, like Microsoft Word for composing and Internet Explorer for browsing.

1. Start Netscape Communicator on your computer.
2. Open a Composer window and start typing your document
• Experiment with the authoring icons (links, etc)
• Preview your page using the preview icon
• save your page in a directory on your computer (or on a diskette) where you will keep all your HTML documents. For this example, let's say the document is called firsttry.html
3. Once you're happy with it, you have to move it to the web server...
4. Open WS-FTP
• in the LEFT window, find the directory and your html file.
• using the lower left box, click on "Connect"
• fill in this box, giving it a Profile Name like "My UTS account"
• On the file tab at the top, there is a second tab called "startup"
• There you can set your directory, say ~robbins/
• (You only have to do this profile once)



5. Here's the hard part you only have to do once:
   • For this you need to run a program called TELNET (or NCSA telnet)
   • Start the program and tell it you want to connect to host uts.cc.utexas.edu
   • Type in your UTS user name and password and get logged in.
   • Type the command "ls" to see a directory of what's there.

   (note, these instructions come from the ACITS pages on getting started )) In your login directory, create a new directory called public_html. To do so, type:

   mkdir public_html

   You will own and manage this directory. Put the files that you want to publish in this directory or in subdirectories that you create. Also, you must make your login directory group and world executable, and you must make your public_html directory group and world readable and executable by typing these commands:

   chmod go+x $HOME

   chmod go+rx $HOME/public_html

   Finally, all files that you put in public_html must be group and world readable. To makethem so, type this command in your home directory:

   chmod go+r public_html/*

6. Now let's continue with WS-FTP
• Click on Connect and your directory, with /public_html/ should be in the right window.
• double-click on public_html
• now you can start moving things from your LOCAL machine to UTS; let's move firsttry.html over.
• when you are going to move something to replace a file on the UTS machine, it's a good habit to first rename the file... so you will have it if you mess up.
7. Now you've loaded firsttry.html onto the UTS machine. Now it's time to see how it looks in a web browser.
8. Get back in Netscape
• under file, select Open Page or Open Location
• In the box that opens, try typing in your location. For this first try, it's a little complex, but here's what you type:

  uts.cc.utexas.edu/~robbins/firsttry.html

  (Note that you don't have to put in the public_html part - the file server assumes that)