Location of published pages
Departmental or Group Pages
Normally the home directories for Information Provider usernames are in sub-directories of the main departmental directory. Only one of the departmental home directories (the main one) has permission to go up into the main departmental directory (the one with the two letter departmental code) and create files and directories there.
Only the main departmental Information Providers can therefore have write access to create and edit the departmental home.htm file.
Directory structures can be created by the Information Providers within their home directories to organise all the files. All files except the home.htm should be created in these sub-directories to the main departmental directory (i.e. one level down from the directory named with your departmental two-letter code), and below.
You should create separate directories for your 'source' and your 'publish' directories. as described in Source files and published files. Only the files in the 'publish' directories should have links created to them.
Students' Union Club or Society
If you are in charge of pages for a Student Union Club, Society or similar, you should create your home.htm in your home directory and put other files in directories below the home directory. If there is more than one Information Provider, it may be helpful for those that are in charge of different pages to have their own sub-directories.
Personal Home Pages
Personal Home Pages can be created though particular note should be taken of the Acceptable Use Policy. A directory called public_html should be created in your home directory/root of your N: drive, and all the files that you wish to be available via the web should be placed in this directory. A file called home.htm should be placed in this public_html directory. This home.htm file will be picked up by default so only the username has to appear in the URL; the URL for personal home pages is http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~username where username is your username. Note that even though your files are in the directory called public_html, the URL for your home page does not show this and is http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~username/. Files get picked up automatically from the public_html directory and files and directories in the root of you rhome directory will not be visible over the web. You can create a whole directory tree within the public_html directory.