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Managing your Dynamic Web Site

Instructions

Use your Caltech account credentials to connect to the server "portal.caltech.edu" from a system on campus or while using Caltech's VPN service with the "Tunnel All" option. You may either use SCP/SFTP software to copy files to and from portal.caltech.edu. Or you may use SSH for an interactive Linux shell session.

The files for your www.SITE.caltech.edu will be located in the /srv/www.SITE.caltech.edu/www/docroot/ folder.  This means the file /srv/www.SITE.caltech.edu/www/docroot/sub/page.html is what will be shown at http://www.SITE.caltech.edu/sub/page.html.

Make sure that you are using the correct permissions when uploading or creating a file/folder, or no one else in your group will be able to change it:

  • user/owner: read & write, plus execute for folders
  • group: read & write, plus execute for folders
  • others/world: read, plus execute for folders

So in UNIX syntax:

0664 for files and 2775 for folders

OR

-rw-rw-r-- (files) and drwxrwsr-x (folders).

If the option is available in your SCP/SFTP software, please create files/folders with the group that owns your "docroot" folder. This will ensure that other members of your group will be able to make changes to the site.