Web pages

Personal Web Pages

The school offers students personal web pages. These pages must comply with the school's policy on computer usage and may be required for various units, but otherwise students are free to use them as they like.

What is my webpage URL?

Your webpage can be found at http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~username. For example, if your username was student01 your web page would be at http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~student01. The same web area is also accessable at http://people.csse.uwa.edu.au/student01

Where are my webfiles?

Your web files are located in your linux home area under the WWW directory. (Note the capital WWW, files place in the directory www will not be accessable).

I've put up a file and I get a 404 (file not found) error when I try to access it - help!

Check the filename and path to the file. The web server is case sensative, so "filename", "Filename" and "FILENAME" are all different.

I get a permission denied error, what gives?

Most likely the permissions on your WWW directory are incorrectly set. For the web server to access them they need to be world readable and any directories need to be world exectable. The can be set with the command "chmod a+r filename".

Do you provide a web counter?

Yes we do. See the counter page for more information.

The web server in CSSE runs a web counter program called Count. This is a relatively simple program to use.

It is called by using a reference to a CGI script from within an image tag. For example:

<img src="http://scripts.csse.uwa.edu.au/cgi-bin/counter.cgi?df=counter"> Produces:

If you want to use the counter, a key thing you will need to set is the "df=" variable. This is a database reference and needs to be unique or else the count will be incorrect.

There are different parameters you can pass to the counter. A quick summary of them is given below, for more, look at Count's webpage. Multiple options can be specified by using the "&" to chain them together.

Option	Used for	Example
df	Database reference, choose something unique I recommend a username/page combination	df=fred01
dd	Specifying different fonts and styles. (Default is dd=A)	dd=A dd=B dd=C dd=D dd=E dd=cd dd=cdr dd=cdd
incr	Increment Count (Default is true) By specifying false, it will not increment the count.	incr=F

Note: The counter will only increment when a request comes in from a different IP address. This means if you are constantly clicking reload, do not expect the count to increase.