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The spinweb
command runs a simple utility developed at Indiana University that helps you create and maintain individual web pages on Mercury/Pages. To use
spinweb
, at the Unix shell prompt on Mercury, enter:
spinweb
By default, spinweb
does the following:
- It creates
www
andwwws
subdirectories, if they do not already exist. These subdirectories are where you will store your web pages. - It creates a file named
home-template.html
in yourwww
directory, if it does not already exist. This is a basic HTML home page that you can use as a starting point for your web pages. - It sets appropriate permissions for the
www
andwwws
directories and any files they contain, so these files will be accessible to browsers. Specifically, it makes your account's web directory accessible to web browsers by adding execute permission on your home directory for all classes of users, and it makes sure that any files in the top level of your web directory have access permissions set so that they are available via the web.Note:It does not reduce permissions if you have previously given wider access to your files and directories than is necessary.
The spinweb
command has several other options:
- To overwrite your existing home page with a new, blank template, run
spinweb -t
. This command will:- Create
www
andwwws
subdirectories, if they do not already exist - Write a new
home-template.html
file, even if one already exists - Set appropriate permissions for the
www
andwwws
directories and any files they contain, so these files will be accessible to browsers
- Create
- To change the permissions on your web pages so that no one can see them, run
spinweb -d
. This command will change the permissions on thewww
andwwws
directories and the files they contain, so that your pages will not be served. Use this option if you want to make your pages inaccessible without deleting the files. - To get help with
spinweb
, enterspinweb -h
.
Note:
If you wish, you can do everything that
spinweb
does by using the standard Unix commands
mkdir
and chmod
. For more information on these commands, see Create a new directory in Unix and
Manage file permissions on Unix-like systems.
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Last modified on 2020-08-05 10:51:12.