Setting up Your Webpage

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Note:Your webpage starts in your home directory .www-docs/index.html . It must be readable by anyone.

1 World Wide Web Support

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World Wide Web Support

CTS provides various resources to enable users to access information from and provide information to the Web.

Tutorials
Style Guide
Web Browsers
HTTP Servers
CGI Scripts
Utilities

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Web Browsers

A program for accessing the Web is called a Web browser. CTS provides several Web browsers: mozilla, firefox, lynx, and elinks. Mozilla and firefox use a graphical interface, and versions are available for X11, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. Lynx uses a text interface, and is available for Solarus. elinks is the Linux version of lynx.

All browsers are in the www package (see the pkg Interface).

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HTTP Servers

HTTP, the hypertext transfer protocol, is the preferred protocol used to serve information to the Web, although other protocols, such as ftp and gopher, may also be used. CTS runs HTTP Servers to allow users and organizations to provide information to the Web via Personal weblet (Welcome Pages).

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CGI Scripts

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) allows documents to be generated by the HTTP server at the time they are requested. CTS provides several CGI scripts in: http: //www.domain/bin/share/ Because they exist on every server, links to them should use relative URLs (/bin/share/...) whenever possible.

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Utilities

Many Web-related utilities will eventually be found in the www package. For example, /pkg/www/lib/elisp/ contains Web-related major-modes for emacs which have not yet been included in the standard Emacs distribution. Programs for converting documents from various formats into HTML will be installed in the near future. Watch this space for developments.