Web and FTP server access

star provides Web and FTP service for the entire group, and users can make files available for download using either method. Here's how...

Web server

To make files available on the web, create a folder called public_html in your home directory. Make sure it has world read/execute permissions (chmod a+rx ~/public_html). Then, if your username is abc, and you put a file mypage.html in the public_html folder, its URL will be http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~abc/mypage.html. If you create a file called index.html within public_html, then it will be loaded by default when someone goes to the URL http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~abc/

FTP server

We run an anonymous download only FTP server. If you want to use this, ask the systems administrator to create a directory on the server for you. This will appear as /home/ftp/abc/ (for user 'abc'). You can then copy files over to this directory as required. People logging onto the ftp server (ftp star.pst.qub.ac.uk) will find the files in the directory pub/abc/

Last updated Wednesday January 18, 2006