Personal Pages

This document describes how to setup a personal web page in the Stanford Computer Science Department.

The Quick Way

Create a 'www' (or 'public_html') directory and set the permissions on it and your home directory:

    mkdir ~/www
    fs sa ~/www www read
    fs sa ~ www l

Your web page will be reachable from several different URLS.

If you put the URL to your web page (e.g. the first example) in Pedit, then the following URL will redirect to it:

The Slow Way

There really isn't a slow way. That's all there is to it.

Stanford Web Service

For information about Stanford's Web Service, as opposed to the CS Department's service, see