Quick Index:

• University Policies - Do's and Don'ts for using University equipment for web publishing
• Publish Web Pages, that is placing your files in your Vax account and activating them
1. Use Telnet software To prepare your VAX account for web publishing
2. To move files into your account area use: Fetch (Macintosh), WS_FTP (Windows) or the Publish command in Netscape 4.0 and also found in Netscape 3.0 Gold (Mac or Win).
3. Use Telnet to Manage The Pages and Files You Place in Your Account Area
4. Use A Browser (e.g., Netscape) to Test Your Account Web Pages
5. Plan
6. If not yet done, obtain a VAX account

Policies

The Western Carolina University VAX/VMS World Wide Web server is provided for the publication of web pages by authorized users. We reserve the right to refuse to publish the documents of any user or group making inappropriate or unreasonable use of this service. In addition, the university does not endorse any of the items published through this service. Decisions regarding appropriateness of use will be based on guidelines in the WCU Policy on the Use of Computers and Data Communications and issues of resource allocation.

The following disclaimer will automatically appear as the heading on each web page:

Examples of inappropriate or unreasonable use include, but are not limited to:

• providing copyrighted materials without authorization
• providing obscene materials
• providing any materials for personal commercial gain
• being compensated for providing materials for any party not entitled to utilize Western Carolina University resources
• providing materials whose nature or volume compromise the ability of the server to serve other users' documents
• improper or unauthorized use of WCU's name or logos
• using the web page in a way which violates other WCU policies or applicable state and federal laws

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Publishing on the VAX/VMS Web Server

Publish from Your Own Server:

If you plan to use your own computer to publish on the Web, that machine must be directly connected to the
Internet and must have server software installed. It is strongly recommended that individuals who decide on
this option dedicate the machine solely as a server and keep it online 24-hours per day.

Publishing on the VAX/VMS Web Server:

The set of activities below presumes that:

• you have created some Web pages using other software
• these web files are on a disk and ready to be made visible on the Internet
• the file name for your home page of your web work is called index.html. If is not called this, you should now rename this file to the required name.

UseTelnet software To prepare your VAX account for web publishing

1. Login to your VAX account, the same account you use for your electronic mail, using a telnet application such as NCSA Telnet or WinQVT.
2. At the $ sign, issue the command:
WEBDIR

This creates a [.www] subdirectory where all web files need to be stored, and it sets the protection on your directory for the web server to access it. This command will only need to be done one time.
3. Log off from your Vax account [use the command: LO]

 

You will next use a different software application to move files into the web directory that you just created.

Publish: Move files into your account area

You need to place all of your web page files into your [.www] subdirectory that you created above. If you created them on a personal computer, you will need to use special transfer software to move them to your VAX account using a program such as Netscape's Composer, Fetch (Macintosh) or WS_FTP (Windows) though file transfer can also be done with FTP commands within Telnet. You can obtain a CD at WCU's Bookstore for $2.50 which contains these programs (Fetch and WS_FTP). Pick one of these three processes for File Transfer that works best for you.

You need a file called index.html in your [.www] subdirectory (be sure the extension is "html" and not "htm"). This file is your welcome page, containing links to the other web (or html) files in your subdirectory. The VAX/VMS Web server will automatically point to your [.www]index.html file as your welcome page, or starting point.

Transfer software or FTP (File Transfer Process) software is used to move the web files on your disk to your account area on the Vax computer. This is built in to the Netscape program The Vax computer then in turn runs Web server software that serves your web pages to users across the Internet. Pick the program appropriate for the computer you are using:

• File Transfer Using Fetch with the Mac operating system
• File Transfer Using WS_FTP on the Windows operating system
• File Transfer Using Netscape Composer (Mac or Win)

Once you have transferred files to the Vax, you may need to go back to the Telnet program (NCSA Telnet or WinQVT) to do some housekeeping chores, including deleting duplicate files.

Use Telnet to Manage The Pages and Files You Place in Your Account Area Using Telnet

To move to your account area on the Vax, Log-on to the Vax (NCSA Telnet or WinQVT) and at the $ prompt you will need several commands to manage your file area.

• At the $ sign, issue the command:
set default [.www]

This places you inside your www directory and all commands such as DIR will apply only to the files in this directory.

If you are not sure whether you are in or not in your www directory, at the $ prompt, give the command: where. To find out how much space left that you have in your reserved account area, type show quota. Assuming that you are correctly inside your directory, you only need to type the commands given below. If you are at the root directory and outside of your www directory/folder, you will need to give the command followed by the directory to which the command applies.

• Disk space is a scarce, limited resource. Your account has a fixed amount allocated for your use. Use it wisely.
• You may type dir or dir [.www] to see what files are in that directory.
• You may type purge or purge [.www] to get rid of old versions of files in that directory.
• You may type delete <filename> or delete [.www] <filename> to delete unwanted files in that directory.
If you want subdirectories:

To make the management of files easier, some prefer to have their files and pages accessed via subdirectories. You may choose to do so with the VAX web server using your FTP software (usually by using buttons or menu items), or your telnet software:

From your telnet session, at the dollar prompt, type:
create/dir [.www.dirname]

(replace "dirname" with the name of your new directory.)

If you would like imagemaps:

Visit the OSU Imagemap Tutorial page for more comprehensive information on imagemaps and the OSU (VAX) web server. There, you will find the following basic requirements:

1. You must have 3 files to provide imagemaps to the client:
1. the calling html file,
2. the gif graphics file (just a standard gif will do), and
3. the file containing the image mapping information (the filename must end with ".imagemap")
2. The html (calling) page should include a link in the format:
• <A HREF="name1.imagemap"><IMG SRC="name2.gif" ISMAP></A>
3. The imagemap file (which is a plain, text file) must be in the [example] format (this format differs from that created by many image map editors - you may need to manually edit the imagemap file):

default http://www.wcu.edu/cc
rect (1,0) (130,21) http://www.wcu.edu/cc
rect (131,0) (186,21) http://www.wcu.edu/cc/services.html
rect (187,0) (256,21) http://www.wcu.edu/cc/resources.html
rect (257,0) (323,21) http://www.wcu.edu/cc/info.html
rect (324,0) (355,21) https://www.wcu.edu/win
rect (356,0) (401,21) http://www.wcu.edu/cc/resnet
rect (402,0) (474,21) http://www.wcu.edu/cc/new.html
rect (475,0) (519,21) http://www.wcu.edu/searchwcu.html

Use Browser (e.g., Netscape) to Test Your Account Web Pages

1. Use the Netscape program. In the location window at the top of the screen, enter the address to your index.html file that you just placed in your Vax account and tap the return key. Your web page should appear. If it does not, then you will need to return to the steps above and determine which one you skipped.

For the address of your web files, you will need to add your own username, but for me, the address would look something like this:

http://www3.wcu.edu/~Houghton/index.html

2. That is, your URL will be: http://www3.wcu.edu/~username/, or if you prefer: http://wcuvax1.wcu.edu/~username/ where "username" is your VAX USERNAME. For example, http://www3.wcu.edu/~js48231/. Please note the final slash (/). If no file in your account is designated, the vax will automatically send the index.html file to an Internet user.
3. If your VAX account is a billable account, there is a charge for your disk usage, i.e., the space used to store your web documents.

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To obtain a VAX account:

Students

needing to obtain your VAX account or to validate an existing one go to the Computer Center's pickup window, located at Forsyth's basement B12. Bring your WCU ID.

Faculty or staff

to validate an existing VAX account contact 227-7284.

Organizations

WCU organizations should get a VAX account or username through an "authorized" representative of the organization (e.g. the faculty advisor for a student club) and the Dean for Student Development. An appropriate username, reflecting the name of the organization, will be issued. Pick up an account application form from the Computer Center main office, located at Forsyth B-10.

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