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How to upload your website to the ASU server and some HTML links
As a little sidenote: We encourage you to look at the source code of this and any other page.
You can use them as an inspiration: If you like a certain feature -just look into the source code and
copy i.e. modify it so it fits your needs. As a personal note -reading source code is generally easier when it
was written by hand and not with a webdesign program. Also, I highly recommend to indent your html-code well.
It makes it so much easier to read the source code because you recognize the hirachry of your commands
right away -look at the source code of this site to see what I mean.
As the name already tells you, this webpage was made to help you to get started on the ASU server and gives you
a couple of links to tutorials for HTML programming. The site is actually more of a link parade than anything else.
We will begin with guiding you trough the process of getting access the server i.e. activate your webspace. You
can get all the information on the ASU website and we will direct you to the neccessary sites as well as comment
some points along the way.
Activate Personal Webpage at ASU
- Go the the following website: ASU TechBase, Mainpage . This site should
be the first to visit when having questions regarding computer (problems) at ASU. From here you should
be able to browse the a site which explains how to create a website on the ASU server.
Or you can go to ASU Interactive .
Under University services => Computing services you find the link
Request Personal Web Space which brings you to the correct page.
- Now read the instructions on this website and go to the following one:
http://www.asu.edu/selfsub . Use your ASUriteID and
password to login. Now you can activate "Personal Webpage Hosting."
Downloading Secure File Transfer software from ASU so you can get your files onto the webserver
If you are working on computer at ASU you can skip this step. The file transfer program "SSH" should be installed
on your computer. If not or if you use your own personal computer keep on reading.
- Now you have webspace -which is quite useless if you can't access it. There are different ways to access
a server. Here (in this class) we will use "SSH" a file transfer program that you can -as an ASU student- download
for free. To do that, we start again at ASU Interactive .
Under University services => Computing services you find the link
ASU licensed SSH software Downloads which brings you to the correct page. Here, you can download any of
the software and use it as long as you are enrolled at ASU. As mentioned we will use "SSH" to up-
and download data to your webspace. So, download and install it!
Accessing your personal webspace
- Start the SSH Secure shell => Secure File Transfer Client. Here you can click at "connect" or "quick connect"
(see figure below) to do just that. Enter the name of the computer i.e. server that you want to connect to.
Your webspace is located under "general.asu.edu". Login using your ASUriteID and password. On the right side
of the screen is remote computer that you have connected to. There you should see two folders named "Backup"
and "www". Everything you want to put on your website goes into the latter folder.
Links to HTML tutorials
So, now that you can upload data (i.e., a website) you should start building one. The nice thing about
writing it by hand is that you only need the most simple word processing program (e.g. the WINDOWS Editor).
Here are a number of links that help you writing HTML. I actually looked them up the whole time I was
writing this page...
Page written by Olaf Zielke and modified by Ramón Arrowsmith.
Last update, August 20, 2007