Creating a Personal Website

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Last updated: Feb 05, 2024 by Moore, Chris S

About personal web space on UNIX

ITS provides current students and employees with 100MB of storage for development of personal web pages. The URL for a personal web site is https://www.albany.edu/~netid where "netid" is the site owner's NetID.

How to create a personal web site

  1. Connect to perspub.albany.edu using an SFTP client (such as WinSCP or CyberDuck)
  2. Your web content will be stored in this location. Load the files that you want to appear on the web site. These will include HTML, image and other files.

  3. After the files are loaded to the site, the files that you uploaded to the site should be visible on the web

    If you are off campus or student using ResNet, you will need to connect using VPN before the SFTP connection will work.

Reminders

  • The default home page should be named index.html

  • To reference other pages, put the filename at the end of the address, for example https://www.albany.edu/~netid/homework7.html

  • File names are case sensitive, so a file named Project.html is different from a file named project.html 




Need more help? Contact the ITS Service Desk.