Creating / Publishing Personal Websites

by admin — published 2021/05/21 12:00:00 GMT-4, last modified 2021-06-03T13:31:17-04:00

There are a number of sites are maintained on the departmental server ms.mcmaster.ca; these are pages that do not need to conform to the standard McMaster templates and are maintained by individual faculty, staff, or graduate students.

Your ms.mcmaster.ca home directory has a folder called public_html where you can create / publish your personal website.

Server Name	`ms.mcmaster.ca`
Web Directory	`~username/public_html`
Home-page File	index.html
URL	`http://ms.mcmaster.ca/~username`
Access from Servers and Workstations	public_html should appear in your home directory on the server or any of the departmental workstations. If you don't see the folder, create it like so: `cd ~ mkdir public_html chmod o+x . public_html`
Access via sftp	From any computer, on campus or off, you can sftp to `ms.mcmaster.ca` and browse to the folder `public_html` in your home directory.
Access from Mac OS X	In the Finder, click Go -> Connect to Server... and enter `smb://ms.mcmaster.ca/username` and then browse to `public_html`.
Access from Windows	Click Start -> Run and enter `\\ms.mcmaster.ca\username` and then browse to `public_html`.

*Note: If accessing ms.mcmaster.ca from off-campus, please first connect to the McMaster VPN.