Course Web Hosting Server: URLs and File locations

• Each user has a their own domain name, in the form of NETID.cs12students.dce.harvard.edu, where NETID is the NetID of the user.
  • You can lookup your NetID at https://key.harvard.edu/manage-account -- look for "NetID" under "Account Information"
    • For example, my NetID is "dph445" — they are typically three letters derived from your name along with three numbers.
    • For example, the NetID for Charles William Eliot may look something like "cwe871".
      Fact: Charles William Eliot was Harvard's president whose term began in the 19th century and ended in the 20th century (1869-1909). NetIds were not being issued in that era.
• To connect to the course web hosting server, you must be connected to Harvard VPN.
• Each user will be able to login to the course web hosting server and will have disk space available. Each user will have a directory (folder) on the system where their web documents will go -- this is the public_html directory.
  • So the file location on the server will be something like /home/users/NETID/public_html, where NETID is the username (e.g. dph445, cwe871, look your NetId up here!)

Directory Requests and "index.html"

URL paths that map to a directory. For example the request: http://cwe871.cs12students.dce.harvard.edu/big_ideas/ would return the index.html document in the big_ideas directory (e.g. /users/cwe871/public_html/big_ideas/index.html).