I'm not very good with technology, and I am trying to set up my unity webspace for a class assignment

What does this step mean?

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"Constructing the URL for each Web page In order for others to visit the Web pages in your www subdirectory or for you to make links among them, you'll need to provide URLs that follow this convention, which utilizes the tilde (~): http://www4.ncsu.edu/~userid/file.html For a specific Web page: Replace userid with your Unity ID. Replace file.html with the file name of the Web page in your www subdirectory. Example: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jddoe/webpage1.htm "

Where do I do this step? Inside WS FTP? How? Please help


Thanks (and yes I tried TWW search for the topic, couldn't find the answers I need )

1/27/2006 1:36:26 PM

uh

i don't really understand what you're wanting to know

what you've quoted there is pretty much just explaining how your URL looks

there's really nothing you need to 'do' per se

1/27/2006 1:42:19 PM

okay well I am using WS FTP, and I've created the www sub folder. I dragged my file into the sub folder so I guess what I'm asking is how do I put the file online? How do I give it a URL or web address? How do I make it so others can get to it? How do I create the URL for that file?


sorry if that doesn't make sense...I am really confused

[Edited on January 27, 2006 at 1:44 PM. Reason : add]

1/27/2006 1:44:22 PM

oh ok

if the file is in your www folder, then it is online

i'm assuming you put an 'index.html' file in your www directory

just point your browser to http://www4.ncsu.edu/~yourunityid/index.html

the same goes for anyother file you put in your www directory

just add the filename to the end of http://www4.ncsu.edu/~yourunityid/

1/27/2006 1:49:07 PM

no, it's not. you have to turn on public access permissions

1/27/2006 1:50:25 PM

yeah well that's usually step number one in these kind of tutorials

i assumed he had already done that

1/27/2006 1:50:59 PM

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"i assumed he had already done that "

this could be the step I am missing

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"From your Unity prompt, type the bold text in the following two lines, pressing the "Enter" or "Return" key at the end of each line: unity% cd unity% fs sa . www:servers l "

where do I do that? In WS FTP? Where? How? Thanks!

[Edited on January 27, 2006 at 1:55 PM. Reason : add]

1/27/2006 1:52:18 PM

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"where do I do that?"

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"From your Unity prompt"

1/27/2006 1:56:55 PM

okay.... what is a Unity ID prompt? Where is that?

1/27/2006 1:57:19 PM

the easiest way for you to do it is to go to a unix machine in a unity lab

1/27/2006 1:59:05 PM

dude(js) just pm dakota_man

hes good with this type of stuff, he has helped me before

1/27/2006 2:00:22 PM

no
the easiest way to do it is here:
http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/web_pages/www4_setup.html

https://sysnews.ncsu.edu/tools-bin/www-setup
enter unity id/ pass, click the button, done

1/27/2006 2:07:55 PM

^agreed. PM me if you need any more help with anything like this. I can prolly explain it to you in simple terms

1/27/2006 3:00:37 PM