Creating Your Homepage

Installation

Check out the command line tips to get some background information if you haven’t done yet. Then follow the Sudo and Nginx tutorials to set up a web server.

Configuration

Connect to your jail with PuTTY or ssh.
Open the Nginx configuration file by typing

sudo ee /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Then look for the following lines

        location / {
            root   /usr/local/www/nginx;
            index  index.html index.htm;
        }

and change it to (don’t forget to change $USERNAME to your actual username)

        location / {
            root   /home/$USERNAME/www;
            index  index.html index.htm;
        }

You can save the file by pressing escape (which opens the menu), then select leave editor and save changes.

Then restart Nginx by typing

sudo service nginx restart

Exit will leave the root account and go back to your normal user account.

Content

Now that we have installed and configured the web server we only need to create a www directory in your home directory and then create a basic index.html file. This can be done by doing

cd ~
mkdir www
ee www/index.html

And then enter the following

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <title>Replace with your name!</title>
  <body>
    Hello World!
  </body>
</html>

To see the result browse to http://username.it.pointpark.edu

2 comments on “Creating Your Homepage”

  1. Miranda Stafiej Reply

    I am not able to see the changes in my webpage… I have made the HTML revisions in putty and followed all the directions is there a video to walk me through this? I am trying to get everything set up ahead of time because I am going to have a baby at the end of this class and want to be a little bit ahead.

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