Homepages

Computer Science students at the LMU can create a webpage accessible worldwide through the WWW.

Procedure

Most requirements are allready taken care of at time of account generation.

The most important concern here are the file access rights of the created directory structures of the homepage. You should have a basic understanding of unix file access rights to configure things correctly. The webserver accesses files like any other user. Therefore it is necessary that the whole directory path form root (/) to the webpage being served is readable and accessible for others.

ATTENTION: CGI and PHP Services are limited to the MWN.

A short Manual on who to create the structure of a homepage manually:

• Make sure that the x-Bit for other is set on your home-directory. Otherwise the webserver can not read the data.

  chmod o+x ~/

• Create the directory public_html in your home

  mkdir ~/public_html

• Make sure that the x-Bit for other is set on your public_html. Otherwise the webserver can not read the data.

  chmod o+x ~/public_html/

• In public_html Verzeichnis ein File erstellen mit dem Namen index.html. Diese File sollte dann die Homepage enthalten. Natürlich muß es auch world readable sein.
• Create a file called index.html in public_html. This file will contain the homepage. It needs to be world readable too.

  chmod o+r ~/public_html/index.html

• If you want to use CGI-Bin’s you need to create a subdirectory called cgi-bin in public_html. That needs to be world readable too.
• If you want to use PHP scripts you need to create a subdirectory called php in public_html. That needs to be world readable too.
• CGIs and PHPs containing privat data should not be readable for your fellow students

  chmod g-rwx privat.cgi

Serveraddresses

• www.cip.ifi.lmu.de for pure HTML pages and files
• cgi.cip.ifi.lmu.de for CGI’s
• php.cip.ifi.lmu.de for PHP Scripts

Access is partially restricted to the Münchner Wissenschaftsnetz (MWN).

Properties

• Homepages are accessible through the following URL: Localy, for quick testing: file://localhost/home/first-letter-of-surname/login/public_html/index.html, e.g. file://localhost/home/t/testusr1/public_html/index.html or worldwide: http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~login where login means your personal CIP-Pool login

• CGI-Bin’s can be access through the following URL Types: http://cgi.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~login/cgi-bin/programmname where login means your personal CIP-Pool login and programmname is the CGI-Bin programm (Please remark the ‘~’ character). The CGI-Bin’s run with the user privileges of the login that contains them..

• The cgi server uses the same Ubuntu version and installation as the normal CIP-Pool workstations.

• PHP Scrips can be access through the following URL Types: http://php.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~login/php/scriptname.php where login means your personal CIP-Pool login and scriptname is the PHP-Script programm. The extension .php is mandatory for PHP-Scripts. In the URL as well as in the filename. wobei loginkennung eure persönliche Loginkennung darstellt und skriptname das PHP-Skript ist. Ausserdem ist die Endung “.php” für das PHP-Skript zwingend notwendig (sowohl in der URL als auch im Dateinamen). index.php is activated as Dir-Index. PHP5 is installed.

• You can not login on the CGI/PHP server. Because of that we created a web-interface for you to access your webserver logs and if needs be kill your CGI/PHP processes. Please remark the GUI Buttons in the XFCE Desktop Environment( https://tools.rz.ifi.lmu.de/misc/cgi_ps.rb)

• Wir bitten euch, bei der Erstellung eurer Homepages die üblichen gesetzlichen Einschränkungen und Vorschriften z.b. (Copyright, Impressum, Datenschutz) und die universitären Einschränkungen bzgl. kommerzieller bzw. geschäftsmäßiger Nutzung die nicht mit der Ausbildung oder Uniprojekten verknüpft, ist zu beachten.

• Please confirm to the applicable legal (e.g. copyright, imprint, privacy protection) and university imposed (no commercial usage) limitations and requirements when creating your webpage.

• The server supports SSL or secure (encrypted) Transmission. The URL for that is https://cgi.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~login/cgi-bin/script.cgi

Attention

If you abuse this service we retain the right to parially or completely block access to the homepage.