Publishing content on other websites
There are some sites - e.g. older personal sites; research-group sites - which are located not in public_html folders but at the document root of the web server.
Server Name | ms.mcmaster.ca |
Web Directory | /www/sites/ms.mcmaster.ca/html |
Home-page File | index.html |
Access from Servers and Workstations | You can access the document root shown above on From unix and OSX computers on the Math & Stats network you can access the document root show above with the prefix /net/ms/share/www. For example: cd /net/ms/www/sites/ms.mcmaster.ca/html/mysitename |
| Access via sftp | From any computer, on campus or off, you can sftp to ms.mcmaster.ca and go to the directory /www/sites/ms.mcmaster.ca/html/mysitename |
| Access from Mac OS X | In the Finder, click Go -> Connect to Server... and enter smb://ms.mcmaster.ca/www and then browse to ms.mcmaster.ca/html/mysitename. |
| Access from Windows | Click Start -> Run and enter \\ms.mcmaster.ca\/www and then browse to ms.mcmaster.ca/html/mysitename. |
*Note: If accessing ms.mcmaster.ca from off-campus, please first connect to the McMaster VPN.