Setting up your personal web space on the POST server

ITServices makes web space available for Faculty and Staff to use for personal web pages either on their QShare account or on the Post server. 

• For instructions on creating your web space on QShare see the Create A Webpage on QShare  tutorial.
• For instructions on creating your web space on the Post server see below.

ITServices managed personal web accounts (i.e. accounts attached to your NetID) may require some user steps in order to prepare the web space. When you receive a NetID account you automatically have space allocated on the server for you, but your account is not ready to accommodate your web files.  To activate the account, you must go through the following steps:

Note: To activate your account you will need an SSH Client program.

1. Log in to the server using an SSH Client.  The server name is post.queensu.ca, and the username and password are your NetID and NetID Password.
2. Once logged in you may see a message saying "Press Return to continue...".  If you see this message, follow the instruction (press Return/Enter).
3. Type "ls" (without the quotes) , then press Enter to ensure you do not have a "www" directory in your account (you should see mail and possibly trash).  Once you've viewed the list of current directories, press Enter/Return again.
   Note: If you have a directory called "www" then your account has already been activated, therefore skip to step #6 to logout.
4. Assuming the "www" directory did not exist is step 3; type "mkwww" (without the quotes) and press Enter/Return.  This will activate the account. The resulting screen should also display the URL of your new site, which is accessible through a browser.
5. Typing the "ls" command again should now show a new directory (www). All files you wish to be accessible from a browser should be placed within that directory, or a sub-directory of that directory.
6. To log out of the session, type "logout".
7. You can now login to the account and transfer files to your "www" directory using an SFTP/FTP Client application. Although there are numerous SFTP/FTP Clients available ITServices recommends  Filezilla for Windows based computers (available through  Ida)  and Fetch for Macintosh Computers.  Note:  It is recommended you use SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) connections if your client supports it.  Both Filezilla and Fetch support SFTP.