Creating your own personal webpage

Every department member has space and url allocated for their personal webpage. This can be used for professional and/or personal purposes, as long as it keeps in line with university and department policies. Violations of copyrighted material or offensive material is strictly prohibited. The department reserves the right to remove any content.

Creating your webpages

1. You can use any variety of software ranging from Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Word, or Notepad.
2. Save all your files in a designated folder like MyWeb.
3. Your homepage filename should be index.html (or index.php).
4. Be sure to copy any images you use into the MyWeb folder.
5. Use an sFTP program to upload all files in your local MyWeb folder to your earth folder called public_html (See the next section for details).

Your website can be viewed at http://earth.usc.edu/~yourusername. 

Creating your own download site

If you want to upload files for others to download without the trouble of creating a webpage, you can can create a subdirectory in your public_html folder called downloads (/home/geovault-00/yourusername/public_html/downloads) and any uploaded files will appear on http://earth.usc.edu/~yourusername/downloads

You can also upload to our general directory /ftp/yourusername on earth.usc.edu.  This will appear on http://earth.usc.edu/ftp

Finding your server space

1. Obtain your Geosys username/password

2. Download and install an sFTP program from http://software.usc.edu (CoreFTP or Filezilla for Win, Fetch for Macs)

3. Launch your sFTP program, login to hostname: earth.usc.edu

4. Create a folder called public_html in your home directory. Anything placed in this folder is viewable to the world.

5. Your first webpage filename should be called index.html (or index.php).