Web Site Information

Georgia Southern allows students to have a webpage that is housed on our campus computers. This document gives instructions on how to create a webpage as well as the policies about what the webpage can and cannot contain.

To see the directory page listing of student pages, please click on - http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/student/

Policies
The policies are listed at - http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/webmaster/policy.html#4

Review these policies before you publish your website. Note that part of the policy is that you must post a page disclaimer and your name and email address on your site. Here is the page disclaimer that must be included:

The content of personal and other unofficial home pages is not sanctioned by Georgia Southern University and does not represent official information or opinions of the University. (Name and e-mail address) is solely responsible for the contents of this page.

Steps To Create Your Webpage

Step One - Get your account name and password
All students automatically have an Eagle4 account for a webpage, you will use the same account name and password for your webpage as you use for https://my.georgiasouthern.edu/.

Step Two - Requesting Your Webpage

Once you know your account name and password on Eagle4, the next step is to request that the webpage (your "public html" folder) be created on the server-

    •  Launch PuTTY or your SSH application. (If you would like more information on PuTTY, along with the ability to download the program, please go to http://services.georgiasouthern.edu/its/tutorials/putty.php .

    •  In the window under Host Address type: eagle4.cc.georgiasouthern.edu, the port is 22 and the Protocol is SSH.

    •  Click Open.

    •  Next to login, type in your account name and then press Enter . You should just type in the first part of your email address, not the @georgiasouthern.edu part.

    •  Type in your email password and click Enter . Note that your typing will not show as you enter your password. Just go ahead and type it in.

    •  Once you have successfully logged in, you will see a $ prompt. Type the command- webpage and click Enter .

    •  A statement will appear explaining that webpage will create a public_html,

    •  Reply Yes and click Enter.

    •  Type in Exit to log off of the SSH session. Then close the telnet screen.

Step Three - Finding Your Address

Your personal URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or web address will be based on your email account name on Eagle4. When you run the 'webpage' command it will create a web directory for you with that name. So your address will be:
http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~usename

For Example:
If you log in with 'newUser1' then your web address would be:
http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~newUser1

Step Four - Creating Your Webpage

There are two steps involved in creating a webpage-

  1. creating the files that will contain your webpage's information (text, images, links, etc.) and
  2. uploading those files

This section covers creating your webpage; the next section covers uploading the files.

You can create a webpage on your home computer or on a computer in one of the campus computer labs. The software that we have on campus lab computers is Microsoft FrontPage. You can use any web editor software to create your site; there are many software packages sold for this purpose or you can just use NotePad or TextPad if you know HTML. There are many resources on the web that cover how to create websites.

Another option is to use text editors from our web servers; we have pico, vi and ce. To use pico, first connect to eagle4.cc.georgiasouthern.edu using a secure protocol such as WinSCP. To edit the index.html file in your public_html directory, you would type:
pico index.html
at the dollar sign prompt. Note that using these web text editors both creates and uploads the files.

 

Step Five - Uploading Your Webpage

You will need to use Secure FTP (SFTP) software to upload your files to the server. Even if you have used Microsoft FrontPage to create your website, you will need to use a separate SFTP software package. (Microsoft FrontPage has built-in software to upload pages but this software does not work on Georgia Southern servers.) So to upload the files, first you must have some SFTP software installed on the computer you are using. Most of the machines in the computer labs on campus have WinSCP or Core FTP Lite installed for a secure connection for Windows and Fugu or Cyberduck for the Macs.

  • for Host name, use eagle4.cc.georgiasouthern.edu
  • for Username, use your my.georgiasouthern account name
  • for Password, use your my.georgiasouthern password

Upload your files to the public_html folder. Note the following:
  • The server looks in your public_html directory for an index.html file so you must have a file named index.html in your public_html directory for your webpage to work properly and to be listed in the directory. You can edit the default index.html file that was automatically created along with your account or you can create a new index.html file and overwrite the default file. Your other files should link to the index.html file.
  • If your name is removed from the directory page listing (http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/student/, make sure that you have a file called index.html (not "index.htm"). Upload a new page named index.html, and your name will appear on the directory list the next day.
  • When you edit the index.html file, make sure that you keep the page disclaimer at the bottom of your new index.html page. You must have the page disclaimer or your webpage will be removed.
  • In referencing images or other documents, you must make sure that you retain case sensitivity. For example, if you reference a document in your public_html directory named "me.JPG" as "me.jpg", it will not work.