SETTING UP MATH WEBPAGES ETC

This an UPDATED html version of a presentation I gave to new grad students on Wednesday, September 1, 2004.

IMPORTANT URLS:

MATH DEPT: http://www.math.ufl.edu

MATH COURSES: http://qseries.org/courses/toc-big.html">

GRADUATE STUDENTS: http://qseries.org/grads/index.html

COURSE SCHEDULE:

MATH DEPT COMPUTER SYSTEM HELP: http://qseries.org/math-net/user-help/index.html

SOME LOCAL UNIX FUNCTIONS:

mathdir - mathdept directory of faculty and students

>  mathdir garvan
Garvan, Frank...........2-0281.x-248..frank.........LIT 483......376-5487
Garvan, Frank.......... Professor................................

schedule - current course schedule

> schedule garvan
FO5..(3)..MAS3114   4095 ....COMPUTATNL.LINEAR.ALG...MWF9..LIT.127..Garvan
F05..(3)..MAS7215   4754 ...THEORY.OF.NUMBERS........MWF8..LIT.125..Garvan

SETTING UP MATH WEB PAGE:

STEP 1: Change to your home directory

> cd
> ls -dl public_html
drwxr-xr-x   2 uname  math         512 Jul  6 14:39 public_html/

STEP 2: Change dir to public_html

> cd public_html
> ls

STEP 3: Create and edit file index.html

> xedit index.html

In this file put information about your office location, phone and hours and sections you are teaching. See attached for example. URL of example:
http://www.math.ufl.edu/~frank/sample-index.html
To download this file hold the shift key while you click.

STEP 4: Change file permission on file index.html so that all can read it.

> chmod a+r index.html

STEP 5: Check your webpage by viewing it with a web browser. If your username is uname use the url

http://qseries.org/~uname

The url of this page is http://www.math.ufl.edu/~frank/misc/w-setup.html.
Created by F.G. Garvan (fgarvan@ufl.edu) on Friday, September 03, 2004.
Last update made Mon Oct 20 14:40:37 EDT 2008.

fgarvan@ufl.edu