Here is some information on how to start building your own website on the Harvard mathematics department server abel:

Assume your email address is "euler.harvard.edu". If no directory 'www' exists in your home directory, login to your abel Unix account, and create a directory with the command

cd; mkdir www;

Everything in this directory is visible from outside at

http://www.math.harvard.edu/~euler

To fill content onto your website, open and edit a file 'index.html' in the directory www or move a file there. In order to adjust permissions so that your personal web page is accessible from outside, use the following line on Abel, where "euler" with your login name.

   cd; chmod 700 *; cd ..; chmod 711 euler; cd; chmod -R 755 www;

To get your page linked to the main department website, drop a note to [email protected]" . The database to redirect your directory to your page.