Directory Structure

From Campus Web Server Help

Each account will be set up with a directory called:

public_html

All of your pages must reside within your account's public_html directory and directories located within this directory.

Included in the public_html directory provided to each account is a document called:

info.html

This document contains a link to the instruction pages (one of which you are now reading).

Home page: Your Home page is the one that people will see when they access your page. Your Home page is your default page. Acceptable names for your Home page are:

home.html
index.html
index.html.var
index.htm
home.htm
index.php
Home.html
Home.htm
home.wml

It is very important to keep in mind that you should have only one document by only one of these names in your public_html directory. If you have more than one, they are used in the order above. For example, if you have a document by the name home.html and home.htm in your public_html directory, home.html will be used as the default.

Naming Documents and Other Files

All HTML documents must end with the extension .html or .htm. Non-HTML text documents should include a .txt extension. Some examples:

home.htm               HTML document
members.html           HTML document
faculty-numbers.txt    Plain text document
tom.gif                GIF image
bob.jpg                JPEG image
ride.mpg               MPEG movie
robot.mov              QuickTime movie
scream.aif             AIFF audio
cry.au                 Basic audio
yell.wav               WAV audio

Referring to Your Page

You, or anyone else, can view your Home page with this URL:

http://www.uga.edu/username/

"username" is the name you used to log into www.uga.edu. This URL assumes that the "Home document" (see above) is available in the directory:

public_html

within your WWW space. To see a page other than the Home page, include the name of the file in the URL. For example, if you had the document:

testdoc.html

in your public_html directory, you can view the page with this URL:

http://www.uga.edu/username/testdoc.html