CSCI-UA.0004 Computers in Principle and Practice, Summer 2014
Assignment #1: Setting up your Account for your Web site
Due: Monday, July 14th

This assignment will create an initial web page for you at http://i6.cims.nyu.edu/~netid  - Soon you will update this page, but for the time being we just want to establish your page and verify that your page is out there!

PART ONE:

Hostname: i6.cims.nyu.edu
login: your NYU Home Netid
Password: the password that we have given you

Here is the i6 account information you will need to post web pages to your site in later steps on this page:

Web Folder/directory: public_html (This is the folder on i6 accounts that will serve files to the web. All html and image files should be uploaded into this folder to be viewed on the web)
Web page address/URL: http//i6.cims.nyu.edu/~netid

If you forget your password, please advise your instructor.

Login for the first time and change your password by using these instructions.

These instructions are for the Mac:

1. Double-click on Terminal (which is available on OS X)
2. At the command line, type in ssh netid@i6.cims.nyu.edu or ssh i6.cims.nyu.edu -l netid so you will be logged in under your netid.

On the PC, open "Putty": (Available from ITS)

If this is the first time you are logging in, your password is the on the handout given to you in class.

If you have problems logging into your i6.cims.nyu.edu account, please inform your instructor ASAP.

PART TWO:

You are now logged in to your "home directory".

Type the following at the UNIX system prompt (which is represented here by the "$" sign). Do not type the "$".

$ passwd [ and follow the instructions to change the password to one of your choice ]
$ exit

PART THREE:

Next, you need to post a webpage with your name in the title and body.

Here is a sample webpage to start:

<html>
<head>
<title>--> Your Name goes here--> </title>
</head>
<body>
<p> --> Your Name and any other text you would like goes here --> </p>
<hr />
<em>More information to follow ... </em>
</body>
</html>

Use TextEdit or TextWrangler on the MAC or Notepad or Notepad++ on the PC to type in or copy the HTML text above and then enter your name into the title and the body of the page.

Save the file as "index.html" and test it in a browser locally to make sure it looks ok (using FILE / OPEN ... in your browser).

Note about using TextEdit on Mac OS X: select Preferences and click on  plain text so that you see your web pages in text format:

TextEdit 2

PART FOUR

Use an SFTP program (available from ITS) or check here for Fugu for the MAC or WinSCP 3.5 application for Windows to upload or transfer your "index.html" web page file to your i6 remote server. Note that the ITS Mac labs have Fetch installed and you can use the NYU site-wide license to install Fetch on your Mac for free.

Make sure that you upload the file into the "public_html" folder on your server.

Check to see if your page is ok on the server using the browser of your choice by looking at:

http://i6.cims.nyu.edu/~netid

PART FIVE:

Post the URL to "NYU Classes" for your instructor and grader.

For further information about your i6 account contact your instructor or go to http://cims.nyu.edu/webapps/content/systems/resources/i6