GAMMA Homeroom July 12, 1999

(1)  Check your membership status of the WIT List.
Once again, would like everyone to become members of the WIT list.  Click HERE to check if you are a member.  Click HERE if you need help in setting mail preferences.  Click HERE to check your email if you are an AOL user.

(2)  Please update John and Sheila of your progress.  Check the PARTICIPANTS page to verify that your homepage URL is correct.  Check the TEAMS and PROJECTS page to verify that your team URL is correct.  You may begin to PUBLISH your files in your teams directory as you progress.  Click HERE to inform us of the status of your work.

(3)  A message from Mitch:

To: wit-l@walrus.uchicago.edu, WITLIST-L@neiu.edu
From: Mitchell Marks <mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu>
Subject: [Wit-l] Don't forget the "www" when you publish in Composer!
Reply-To: wit-l@cuip.uchicago.edu

A number of people are forgetting that the URL for the Publish function in
Composer is

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

and the only use as far as home/USERNAME.  The files DO get successfully
uploaded, but you won't see them anywhere in the Navigator browser.  Only
files in the www folder (or in some subfolder under that) show up when you
use a browser and look in

 http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~USERNAME

(And why is "that"? Because people do some things with their computer
accounts besides publish web pages, so they need a way to distinguish what
they want the web server to publish from what they don't want to share with
the whole world.  The way that has evolved is to distinguish that by where
a file is located, with a designated location for each user being shown by
the web server.  Besides "www", some systems use "html" or "public_html".)

Anyway, the moral of the story:  Don't forget the "www" when you publish
in Composer!

Mitch

(4)  Let's FETCH:  An alternate way to publish your files.  Click HERE for more information.
 

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