Setting Up Personal Websites

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If you want to setup a personal website, you need to follow the steps below:

1. You must be a currently enrolled UMBC student or employed as a faculty or staff member.

2. You must already have a myUMBC account (or you will need to obtain one before you can go any further with these procedures).

3. Assuming you have fulfilled the requirements of steps 1 & 2, you need to SSH Telnet (using SSH TeraTerm Pro) to gl.umbc.edu and login using your myUMBC username and password.

Note: All students and faculty and staff hired after August 2000 automatically have gl.umbc.edu accounts with an enabled "pub" directory for Web pages. For ease of use and improved support, faculty and staff with "old style" Research or umbc7 accounts should seriously consider converting to gl.umbc.edu. For more information, contact the OIT Help Desk at 410.455.3838 or submit a work order to convert your account.

4. Verify that you have a /pub/www folder in your account. By default all accounts should have this folder, but it is better to confirm before starting to upload pages.

5. At the prompt ( irix2 # )  type the following (hit return/enter after the line shown below):
cd ../pub/www

6. After you have typed/executed the command above and verified the www folder exists, you will now be able to upload your web pages to your personal directory. This is done using an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program such as WinSCP for Windows, or Fetch for Apple Macintosh. If you are working in one of the labs on campus, you can save the files on the W:/ drive. Alternatively, you may use a program called Macromedia Dreamweaver to create and upload your website.

To access your web page via a web browser go to: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~your_username_here