Creating Personal Homepages
Welcome to Creating Personal Homepages. One of the privileges of having a 51²è¹Ý Username is that you are allowed to create a personal homepage in your account that is viewable to the world.
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Pages which include offensive images or sounds, and copyrighted material and pages created for commercial purposes are strictly prohibited. Any violation of the Executive Policy Use and Management of Information Technology Resources or the may result in disciplinary action and may also result in revocation of your computing privileges and/or complete or temporary disabling of your personal homepages from the system. Please read the for more information.
Before You Begin
Before you can create your personal homepage you must have a 51²è¹Ý Username:
Getting Started with Your 51²è¹Ý Username
After getting your 51²è¹Ý Username, you will need to enable this feature on your account:
- Go to
- Click on Manage 51²è¹Ý Account
- Login with your 51²è¹Ý Credentials
- Click on Create Home Page
Your URL Is...
The URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of your page will be in the form: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~username
For example: Jane Doe with a 51²è¹Ý Username of "jdoe" has created a personal webspace. A user will be able to be access Jane Doe's website in a web browser with the url http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jdoe
All files that Jane would like to make available for her webspace should be in a directory called "public_html" in her 51²è¹Ý home account. The default file that gets loaded when somebody browses your Web page is "index.html".
The "public_html" directory and its contents that you'd like to be available on the Web needs to be set such that the web server can read them. New files can be uploading using a sftp client connecting at port 22 (see sftp section below).
Manual Updates
| General Settings for Personal Homepages Hostname: uhunix.hawaii.edu Username: <Your 51²è¹Ý Username> Password: <Your Password> Directory: public_html |
SSH
ITS supports SSH for the PC.
ITS supports the secure file transfer (sftp) protocol for uploading files onto your personal webspace. Some applications that support sftp are FileZilla for Windows and Mac OS X. File transfer protocal (ftp) clients such as (WS_FTP LE and Fetch 3.x - 4.x) no longer work with our services, as these programs do not support encryption.
| Platform: | Protocol: | Application: (click to download) | Installation Instructions |
| PC | SSH | ||
| PC | SFTP | FileZilla | HTML |
| Macintosh OS X 10.9 and higher | SFTP |
Whichever sftp client you choose to use when uploading your Web content, remember to include the port number, which is 22, when connecting. This number comes after the host name when opening a sftp connection to the Web server. For instance, when connecting to uhunix, the host name should look like uhunix.hawaii.edu:22. Use this host name along with your uhunix username and password when creating a sftp connection to publish webpages.
For more information, please visit the SSH/SSL FAQ.
Troubleshooting
- If you have trouble uploading your files, send mail to help@hawaii.edu
- If your error message says the file is not readable, the directory is not readable, or permission denied, then use the Personal Homepage Management Utility to make your file(s) viewable.
- If you get an error messsage saying that the file is not found, be sure you have an 'index.html' file in your public_html subdirectory. You can use the Personal Homepage Management Utility to create a default (index.html) page in the correct place or make sure your SFTP general settings are correct.
- If your error message states that the host is not found, be sure you type your URL correctly.
- Make sure that you include the port number for you sftp connection. For example, when connecting to uhunix use uhunix.hawaii.edu:22.
Scripting and ASP Info
CGI scripting (other than features listed below), Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), and Microsoft Extensions are not supported on MyHomepages. CGI scripting is only offered for departmental pages.
Add-On Features
Form Methods
For a simple method of retrieving a users comments (email or a text file) with a form see:
HFPM Method
Server-side Includes
To include the contents from another file in your page:
Server-side Includes
Page Counter
For instructions on adding a page counter:
Adding a Page Counter