General information about WIT
Organization and structure of WIT
Availability of labs outside of class time
Scope and Sequence for WIT Basic
PRODUCT expected of WIT Basic participants
Information about the CUIP Server
 
  

WIT Participant Accounts on CUIP Server

Vocabulary

CUIP Server

Activities

 

Vocabulary

 

  • hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP): The protocol for moving hypertext files across the Internet. Requires a HTTP client program on one end, and an HTTP server program on the other end. HTTP is the most important protocol used in the World Wide Web (WWW).

  • file transfer protocol (FTP): -- A very common method of moving files between two Internet sites. FTP is a special way to login to another Internet site for the purposes of retrieving and/or sending files. There are many Internet sites that have established publicly accessible repositories of material that can be obtained using FTP, by logging in using the account name anonymous, thus these sites are called anonymous ftp servers.

  • unix: A computer operating system. UNIX is designed to be used by many people at the same time (it is multi-user) and has TCP/IP built-in. It is the most common operating system for servers on the Internet.

  • operating system: the basic software running on a computer, underneath things like word processors and spreadsheets

  • server: A computer, or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on other computers. The term can refer to a particular piece of software, such as a WWW server, or to the machine on which the software is running, e.g.Our mail server is down today, that’s why e-mail isn’t getting out. A single server machine could have several different server software packages running on it, thus providing many different servers to clients on the network.

  • (see http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html or Managing Use of the Internet Glossary for more terms)

The CUIP Server

[content mostly by Mitch Marks]

Home Directory

As a participant in WIT, you have a home directory on the cuip.uchicago.edu server.

On this server, you have a directory that is your veryown. It is either

/home/username/ (for participants who joined WIT prior to May 2000) or

/home2/username/ (for participants who joined WIT after May 2000)

Within this directory, you have a subdirectory, called "www". Its address is either

/home/username/www/

or

/home2/username/www/

(again, whether your directory is in home or home2 depends on when you got your cuip account)

This subdirectory is your "public WWW directory." Anything you place in the www directory can be seen by anyone on the web who has the following "http" or web browsing address::

http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~USERNAME

  • replace USERNAME with your username

  • the "http://:" is optional in newer browsers

  • the "www" doesn't appear in the "http" address.

  • The funny character before "USERNAME" is called a "tilde." It is (usually) on the upper left of your keyboard. This character is also used as the "approximate" symbol in math.

  • Open up a new window in Netscape Navigator and look at that address now. You will see an "index," or list of the files in your www directory.

  • Once you create your own personal home page (in Introduction to Netscape Composer module), this list of the files will be replaced with your personal home page.

While "www" doesn't appear in the http address, it does appear in the "ftp" address (used for publishing and "fetching" documents to and from the server):

ftp://cuip.uchicago.edu/home/USERNAME/www

or

ftp://cuip.uchicago.edu/home2/USERNAME/www

Guided Activities

Your mentor may show you how to do these activities:

  • browse to your home web page (http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~username)

  • Open new browser window: Click File and then New and then Navigator Window.

    Type your home page address into the "Location" field, then press Enter.

  • use "telnet" to look at your home directory and your www directory

  • telnet cuip.uchicago.edu

    enter username at prompt

    enter password at prompt

    you are now "in" your home directory

    type ls (that's little LS) to see a list of files in the directory, or ls -l (that's dash-el) to see more detail (a "long" listing)

    the "www" you see is your public HTML directory.

    type cd www to switch to the www directory.

    type ls (that's little LS) again. This will show all your web files. (If it's empty, well, that's what you're here to learn!!!)

    You will learn more Unix commands when you do the FTP module.

  
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