Religion 345:
Lab Session: Settin gup your own account on cti.itc.

Objective: to access and configure your individual public_html account on the server cti.itc.virginia.edu

Launch Telnet

  1. Open hard drive MacintoshHD
  2. Open the folder called UVANET
  3. Open the folder called Telnet f
  4. Launch (double-click on) the application called NCSA Telnet 2.7b4 (fat)
Access your individual account
  1. From the File menu choose Open Connection
  2. In the dialog box fill in the Host/Session name: cti.itc.virginia.edu
  3. When the Unix window appears, type in your login id. The window will appear thus:

    SunOS UNIX (cti.itc.Virginia.EDU)
    login: [userid] (whatever your user id is - i.e. your e-mail address before the @virginia.edu).
    Password: [!!userid] (Type in two exclamation points plus your userid)
    Enter terminal type [default is vt100]: (just hit the return key)
    This is your first login. You must change your password.
    Local password is to be changed for [userid]
    Changing password for [userid] on cti.itc.Virginia.EDU.
    Old password:
    New password:

(There are many tricks to choosing a good password: through Netscape you can see the document gopher://minerva.acc.Virginia.EDU:70/0R0-8815-/itc/accnewsm/password.info)

Establish a public_html directory in your account
(see the URL http://www.virginia.edu/web-guide.pers.html)

  1. At the $ prompt, create a directory called public_html by typing: mkdir public_html
  2. Make the directory "readable" to everyone by typing: chmod a+rx . public_html . (Note the period and spaces between "rx" and "public")
Launch Fetch, admire your new account
  1. Fill in the dialog box:

    Host: cti.itc.virginia.edu
    Userid: [userid]
    Password: [your new password]
    Directory: [leave blank]

  2. Double-click on the directory public_html; make sure that that directory is at the top of your pull-down menu in the Fetch window.
If you already have an image file saved on your disk, skip the following step. If you do not, proceed with the step below.

Save an image file to your floppy disk

  1. Launch Netscape (do not not close Fetch)
  2. Using your Bookmark file, open the Bayly Museum images, or search for an image in the Fowler Collection.
  3. Point your cursor to the chosen image. Hold down the mouse button until a menu appears. Select Save As..., then save the image file to your floppy disk .
Modify your file shell.html to include an image tag
  1. Open up the file shell.html
  2. Below the body tag type in the following: img src="imagefilename.gif" (the image file name should be exactly the same as the name of the image which you have saved to your floppy).
  3. Save this file (from the file pull-down menu choose Save, or press COMMAND-S).
Upload image and text files to your Unix directory

  1. Back in Fetch, click the Put button
  2. Select the file shell.html from your floppy disk
  3. Upload as shell.html (or choose any name you want) with the format Wrapped Text.
  4. Make sure you are uploading to your public_html directory: this directory should be at the top of the pull-down menu on your Fetch window.
  5. Make sure you delete the characters .txt from the filename. Your text filenames should always end in .html.
  6. Click the Put button
  7. Select the file [image.gif] from your floppy disk
  8. Upload as [image.gif] with the format Raw Data
View file on Netscape

  1. In Netscape, open the following URL: http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~youraccount/shell.html
  2. You should see your web page complete with image!