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Set up a personal webpage

The easiest way to create a public web page is to place your web files in your Astro Unix account, in the subdirectory "public_html". Make sure that the top file of your website is called "index.html". You should then be able to access your web page with the following URL from your browser:

  • http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~username

You must make sure that both your home dir and the public_html directory have r-x permissions for the world:

> chmod o+rx $HOME
> chmod o+rx $HOME/public_html

If you want your page linked from your name on the "People" pages on the Astro website, please email webmaster [at] astro.caltech.edu.

With the migration of the Caltech Astro website to Caltech's new "Wagtail" web environment, there is also a GUI-based web development tool available to you as well. This environment greatly simplifies the creation of simple websites. If you are interested in using this, please e-mail help [at] astro.caltech.edu to find out how to get started.