Glue WWW Services

Server Feature

User Homepage

To create a personal homepage, create a file called $HOME/public_html/Welcome.html (see Howto section on creating HTML document). Your homepage can be accessed with url http://www.glue.umd.edu/~your_login_name/
Also make sure your public_html directory is readable by anyuser by doing: 'fs setacl $HOME/public_html system:anyuser read' if your home directory is in AFS or 'chmod o+r filename' for every file in your public_html directory if it's in NFS.

Department Homepage

Please do a request and we'll setup a WWW server to suit your departemental needs

Directory Listing

Directories on Glue AFS can be accessed using url http://www.glue.umd.edu/afs/glue.umd.edu/directory_name

Cgi Binaries

/cgi-bin/htimage

with the help of mapedit, imagemap is a snap

/cgi-bin/imagemap

image mapping ncsa/apache style

How To:

Create HTML document

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML - from NCSA, a good start
• Bad Style Page - Don't do these when writing HTML pages
• Composing Good HTML - follow these guidelines for good HTML practice
• Create A Page - will automatically create an html page for you
• How To Create High Impact Documents - most of the method here only works for netscape browser
• HTML, the complete guide
• HTML Quick Reference - you guessed it
• Netscape's Extensions to HTML - sorry Mosaic/lynx users :-)

Create an interlace GIF

cat foo.gif | giftoppm | ppmtogif -interlace > foo-interlace.gif

Create a transparent GIF

• giftrans -t rgb_background_color foo.gif > foo-transparent.gif
• Miscellanous info from yahoo

Create an image map

The easiest way is to use mapedit (type mapedit after tapping www). Look at the documentation for info on using it.

Browser/Utilities

Netscape aka Mozilla

from Netscape corporation. To run: netscape

Mosaic-2.5

the classic, to run: Mosaic

Lynx

most popular line mode browser. To run type lynx