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Web Services and Web Technical Infrastructure

Web Accounts

Personal Web Accounts

All IU Northwest faculty, staff and students are able to have personal home pages at
http://mypage.iu.edu/~username/

In order to publish web pages, a user needs to have a Mercury computer account. Once a mercury account is in place for an IU Northwest person, they can publish their pages to a www directory in their mercury account and mypage.iu.edu will be able to serve the pages.

Follow these steps:

  1. Obtain a Mercury Account
  2. Install PuTTY and / or WinSCP (SFTP)
    1. If at Home
      1. PC
        1. Set up vpn connection
        2. PuTTY and / or WinSCP (SFTP)
      2. Mac
        1. Set up vpn
          1. Mac OS 9.x and earlier
          2. Mac OS X
        2. Install MacSSH - for telnetting
        3. Install MacSFTP 1.0.6 - for FTP or putting files on Mercury
    2. If at IU Northwest, vpn is not needed. Use existing PuTTY and / or WinSCP (SFTP), MacSSH, or MacSFTP
  3. Directions For Setting up Personal Web pages
  4. WinSCP (SFTP) to put files on the web.

Other Information

Obtain a Mercury Account

Obtain a Mercury Account Info.

Information for mapping SFTP

Host: mercury.uits.indiana.edu
Start folder: /fs/username/www/

Directions For Setting up Personal Web pages

Quick Start for mypage Personal Web Pages

  • Using Mercury Information
  • Use PuTTY and / or WinSCP (SFTP) to your mercury.uits.indiana.edu account
    • Type your mercury (web account) password when requested:
  • Type your username at Login: 
    • Type your Mercury password at password:
  • If you don't have the www and wwws directories on your Mercury account do the following:
    • Use PuTTY to get to your mercury.uits.indiana.edu account
      • Type your username at Login: 
        • Type your Mercury password at password:
      • This will get you to your mercury account, at the command prompt type in: spinweb
        • Here is some information about spinweb.
      • It will give you some information about what spinweb will do, it will ask you, Do you wish to continue, Type y|n, you would type in y
      • It will create the www and wwws directories necessary for you to start putting up your web pages.
      • You then type in: exit (to exit the PuTTY program)

Using WinSCP (SFTP) File Transfer Client to put files on the web

You must use WinSCP (SFTP) client to transfer files to mercury (personal web pages - mypage.iu.edu) or to telnet to the mercury server.

  • Set up WinSCP (SFTP) Transfer Client to transfer web pages to and from the web.
    • Initially, you will copy the home.html page locally (make a directory called your username on your local hard drive and transfer home.html locally to edit).
  • Make changes locally to the files then ftp them to the web.

    Note: If you want to be included in the Directory of Personal Home Pages and indexed by the IU Search Engine, your main web page must be called home.html. If you do not want to be listed in the directory, we suggest naming your primary page index.html, index.htm, or home.htm . If you have a home.html file, after one day, check to see that your username appears in the Directory of Personal Home Pages at http://www.indiana.edu/~hyplan/hyplans.html.

  • Use WinSCP (SFTP) File Transfer Client to ftp the local files to the web.
  • View your pages from a browser by typing:  http://mypage.iu.edu/~username/
  • See that your name is on the directory of Personal Pages at: http://www.indiana.edu/~hyplan/

Note: The new web account files are uploaded to the server - at 5:00AM, 11:00AM, so your page won't be displayed until after one of these times. It will take 1 day for your new page listing to appear in the directory!

Additional information you may check these

To check your disk space on Mercury

  • From PuTTY - Telnet, telnet to mercury.uits.indiana.edu
    • Type your username at Login:
    • Type your Mercury password at password:
    • In mercury, to see how much disk space you are using and make better use of my disk quota, at the Unix prompt, enter: quota -v 
    • To see how much space each file on your account takes, at the Unix prompt, enter: ls -l
  • Accounts on mypage.iu.edu are allocated 1 GB of disk storage space. See the Knowledge Base reference for information all disk spaces. See below for steps to check your mercury disk space for file storage and link to checking how much disk space you have used. See the Knowledge Base reference on baseline disk quotas and how to request an increase.

Policy

Please read the Design Guidelines page for IU Northwest web pages.

Helpful Web Links

There are a number of entries in the Indiana University Knowledge Base about ftp, telnet, and file permissions which would be helpful to review:

Additional Sites