Each user on the NetWinder has the opportunity to create his or her own personal home page. The address of your page works like this:
If your NetWinder is called server1.rebel.com and your user account name is mike, then your home page address will be http://server1.rebel.com/~mike. Your page's address also shows up in the NetWinder User Directory.
How to set up a web site that replaces the default OfficeServer page:
- Create your site with any tool.
- FTP the html pages and images to the OfficeServer (as httpd) your stuff goes in the "html" directory.
- Make sure you overwrite or remove the file "index.html."
To get into the OfficeServer GUI after doing this, just point the browser to http://your.address/netwinder/.
NetWinder's Web Page Creator will help to get you started creating your personal web page. However, it is only a tool for starting your page. If you want a more advanced web page, you can use the web page design tool included with your OfficeServer. You will find Corel Web Designer on the Corel Print Office CD-ROM.
When you click Web Page Creator from the User Profiles section of the NetWinder web page, you will see a page like this:
Web Page Creator uses page templates to build a simple page for you. To get started, click Create/Edit Page under Home Page on the main Web Page Creator screen. After filling in some simple information for your web page, click Save and your home page will be created.
You can then browse over to your home page and see how it looks.
If you decide to edit the HTML directly or with a commercial web design tool, you can place the new pages in a directory called public_html under your NetWinder home directory. To do this, use the NetWinder FTP, Windows Network Neighborhood, or Apple File Sharing (AppleTalk) services.
Note: Some web design tools have a Publish feature that can upload files automatically to the web server. If you use such a tool, you need to configure it to use the FTP server, not HTTP. For example, to publish web pages to the OfficeServer from Corel Web Designer, follow these steps:
Root folder: /home/httpd/html
Server: enter the IP address of your NetWinder
Port: keep the default value of 21, unless you are an advanced user
Username: NetWinder login name
Password: Your password
That's it!