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Publishing to the WWW

Uploading Your Web Pages

The VT Filebox

If you are a Virginia Tech student or employee with an active PID, you can get a Filebox in which to put your WWW pages. Filebox is a service that provides users with filespace on a WEB server machine, without having to give each user a login account.

To get a filebox, email your request to filebox@vt.edu. Be sure to include your PID. Allow at least 3-5 work days for your filebox request to be processed.

Accessing Filebox: Hostname: www.vt.edu Userid: [your VT PID] Password: [your VT PID password] Directory: /filebox/[your filebox directory path]

Here's a brief step-by-step description of how to upload HTML documents to a Vt filebox. For more detailed info go to the VT Filebox site.

• Use an FTP utility (such as Fetch or WS_FTP) to login to the Filebox server.

   

• FTP to: www.vt.edu

   

• Use your PID as the userid and your PID PASSWORD as the password.

   

• Change directory to your filebox directory.

   

  cd filebox/[capital letter of 1st character of yourPID]/[yourPID]/,

  (If your default directory is different when you login through FTP, check with the pwd (print working dir command from within ftp) to see if it is different; or traverse to the correct directory if you are using a FTP client program).

   

• Then put (upload) your page(s).

  Note that "index.html" is the default homepage for most html servers. That is, if you have a file named "index.html", most html servers will consider that the homepage for that directory and will automatically load the it when someone accesses your directory.

   

• Your personal URL (Uniform Resource Locator) will be:

  http://www.vt.edu:10021/[capital letter of 1st character of yourPID]/[yourPID]/[your_homepage_file].html

  Note the brackets in the URL. Do NOT use the brackets in your URLs. Do NOT use exactly what is printed within the brackets. Replace your OWN information for what is within the brackets.

   

• Have your home page added to the VT directory.

  View the instructions for doing so at http://www.vt.edu:10021/stuhome/submit.html

Filebox Notes: File boxes that aren't updated within 18 months or that belong to former students or employees are deleted from the server. New student fileboxes are created with a quota of 1Mb. Filebox does not support Web page FTP, and .exe, .zip, .ppt, or CGI-scripts