Welcome to the UWM WWW server's public area!

Here in no particular order are some WWW Rules, Policies, Hints, etc.
Note that this documentation is very preliminary, and will be expanded
and supplemented with other information available from our WWW pages.

 * Your UWM WWW pages may not be used for commercial purposes!

 * Your WWW home page may be referred to by Mosaic, Lynx, etc. as:

	http://www.uwm.edu/~login/

   Note that "login" above should be replaced with your Alpha login id.
   Your page may also be found under the "UWM Public WWW Area" selection on
   the UWM home page (http://www.uwm.edu/; most UWM browsers start up there).

 * Note that the name of our WWW server is "www.uwm.edu" and the actual
   computer that this name refers to may change, so please use ONLY this
   name, not "alpha2" or any other names.

 * Your WWW directory may be referred to on the Alpha as simply "www"
   in your home directory, or by "~/www".

 * Your "home page" is kept in a file called "index.html", which is the
   name the WWW server looks for first in your directory.  If you change
   this name, it won't work the same.

 * All files in your WWW directory need to be publicly readable (see
   the "mkpub" command), and there can be no Unix links to files outside
   of the WWW file area.  All directories need to be publicly searchable
   ("other" execute bit on).  Normal files should NOT have the execute
   bit on.

 * All WWW-served files must reside in the same special file area set
   aside to serve Anonymous FTP.  All users have a disc quota for this
   area, in addition to the disc quota for home directories.  Unix file
   links to files outside of this area will not work.

 * If you add other pages to your WWW directory, pages can refer to each
   other simply by name.  For instance, if you add another page called
   "linksIlike.html", you could point to it from your home page like this:

	<A HREF="linksIlike.html">These are a few of my favorite things.</A>

  From any of our WWW server pages, the full name would be:

	/~login/linksIlike.html

  Note that you'd use the full name with "clickable maps" and to let other
  UWM users have pointers to your pages.

  From outside of our server, in an "open URL" command, the complete name is:

	http://www.uwm.edu/~login/linksIlike.html

 * Our WWW server is version 1.3 of the NCSA HTTPD server.  Information
   about this server and advanced topics such as fill-in FORMS, clickable
   images (ISMAP), "cgi" programs, etc. is available at:

		http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

 * There are some generic "cgi" programs which you may use that are kept
   in the Alpha directory:

                /usr/local/lib/WWW/cgi-bin/...

   These programs are referenced as "/cgi-bin/..." from your pages.  Of
   particular interest is the "imagemap" program, which allows you to create
   "clickable images", and is described here:

		http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/setup/admin/NewImagemap.html

 * You must obtain special permission to run your own "cgi" programs (FORMS,
   etc.), and they must be placed in a special directory separate from the
   other WWW files.  The "wwwsetup" program will create this directory for
   you if you require it.

 * A current copy of this documentation may be found in the Alpha directory:

		~WWW/doc

   It may be found on the WWW server under user "WWW" in the public area,
   which has the full URL:

		http://www.uwm.edu/~WWW/

   You will also find more information about how to develop WWW pages there.
Last update: July 5, 2000. --- URL: http://www.uwm.edu/info/UWM.WWW.html
Copyright 2000 by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, all rights reserved.
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