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Personal Webspace

Your ECS account is provided with personal webspace where users can publish html files for public viewing. Students receive 500MB of space and faculty and staff receive 1GB.
Frequently Asked Questions
  1. How do I activate my personal webspace?
  2. Where can people access my personal web pages?

How do I activate my personal webspace?

You can create your own Web pages on the ECS UNIX systems by following these instructions. Pages may be created by all Engineering faculty, staff and students.

You must first create a directory inside your home directory that will host your web content. This directory must be called webfiles and must have the permissions of '-rwxr-xr-x' and should contain an html file called index.html with the permissions '-rw-r--r--'. You can do this manually with unix shell commands or you can execute our web creation script using the following directions.

  1. Login to barney.ecs.umass.edu using ssh. You can find information about available ssh clients ECS supports on our supported hardware and software page here. Use your ECS account name and password when prompted.
  2. At the prompt issue the following command:

    barney% web-create (n.b. - web-create is one word not web [space] -create!)

  3. Once finished you can access your default page at where username is your ECS username:

    http://www-unix.ecs.umass.edu/~username

Where can people access my personal web pages?
Anyone can access your personal pages at the following locations:

http://www-unix.ecs.umass.edu/~username

or

http://www.ecs.umass.edu/~username