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====== Personal Homepage ======
This document describes how to setup a web site inside of your home directory which can be accessed at this URL: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~username

===== Step by step =====
==== 1. Permissions on your home directory ====
Set your home directory to allow for at least execute permissions on group and other. This will enable the web server to execute the html files inside your home directory.
<code>
user@host:~$ ls -ld $HOME
drwx------ 60 user group 4096 Dec 17 15:56 /home/user
</code>
<code>
user@host:~$ chmod 711 $HOME
</code>
<code>
user@host:~$ ls -ld $HOME
drwx--x--x 60 user group 4096 Dec 17 15:56 /home/user
</code>

==== 2. Creating the directory that will host your site ==== 
Our web server looks for a folder with the name of 'html' inside your home directory from which it will attempt to serve. If you do not already have this directory create it.
<code>
user@host:~$ mkdir -p $HOME/html
</code>
We want to make sure the web server has enough permissions to this directory.
<code>
user@host:~$ chmod 755 $HOME/html
</code>
Verify the change.
<code>
user@host:~$ ls -ld $HOME/html
drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 53 Dec 17 15:57 /home/user/html
</code>

==== 3. Creating your first web page ====
We can create a simple page by doing the following:
<code>
user@host:~$ echo 'hello world' > $HOME/html/index.html
user@host:~$ chmod 644 $HOME/html/index.html
user@host:~$ ls -l $HOME/html/index.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 28 Dec 17 15:57 /home/user/html/index.html
</code>

==== 4. Viewing your home page ====
You can access your home page by using the following URL: https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~username
Please replace 'username' with your CNETID.

==== 5. An additional note ====
PHP is supported on personal home pages.

====== Password protecting a directory ======
Please be aware that this not provide any real security and only keeps honest people honest. People viewing your page with a web browser will be required to provide a password. However, since files in your ~/html directory must be world readable to be seen by the server, anyone can view your html files directly.

Create new password file (with a user):
<code>htpasswd -c .http_passwd new_user</code>
  - The password file should not be in your html directory, but it must be world readable.
  - To add more users remove ''%%-c%%'' from the above command.
<code>htpasswd .http_passwd user2</code>
Put a file .htaccess in each html directory to be restricted. Start with this template:
<code>
AuthUserFile /home/mokwa/html/.http_passwd
AuthName Projec
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
</code>
Now set the permissions on the .htaccess and .http_passwd file.
<code>
chmod 644 .htaccess .http_passwd
</code>