panix.user.html FAQ

Setting Up

Creating a Personal Web Space

When setting up a personal homepage on Panix, the first thing you must do is run Charlotte. This is actually a Unix command which you simply type at the Unix prompt. If you are using the Menu Shell, hit the exlamation mark (!) to get to the Unix prompt. Then type:

charlotte

and press <enter>.

This is what the output of charlotte looks like.

$ charlotte
        This program will create a directory for you to store documents
so that they will be accessible from the world wide web.

See the price list in the help system for information on the
cost of this service
Do you want to continue? (y/n) > (type y or n, and press )

creating symlink /htdocs/userdirs/(your username)/public_html

Your web directory is (your web directory will be listed here).

        To make life easier, I created a link to it in your directory
called public_html. Remember that you have to give read
permission to every file you put there or it cannot be read
from the web. Use the command "chmod a+r [filename]".
Please make a note of it.

        For answers to questions about html, and web at panix,
read the FAQ at http://www.panix.com/web/faq, and the
newsgroup panix.user.html.

Your URL is (your URL will be listed here)
$

You now have a directory in your home directory called public_html, where all of your HTML files will go.