Anyone having an account at DICT can set up a personal website. You need to do the following:
For the creation of a website several possibilities exist, all well described in several tutorials you can find on the internet. To publish webpages on one of our servers, the following requirements need to be kept in mind:
https://users.UGent.be/~login name/Attention: if you enter a name other than index.html for the home page, then, when navigating to the above URL, a list of all files in the directory will be displayed, which is not desirable.
You can transfer the website you just created to the server, by copying the files to your web space.
To learn how you can connect to ("mount") a network drive, please consult "Mounting network drives". Copying files from your local computer to a network drive is analogous to copying files between two folders on the same computer.
The web space is located on webhost.
\\webhost\<loginnaam>
The web space is also available via files.
\\files\<login name>\www\users
When mounting the web space, you access the WWW directory.
Please note that if you wish to update your website from home, you need to have access to your web space.
There are 2 ways to do this:
If you have created an index.html file and transferred it to the web space, then you can have a look at your website. Surf to https://users.UGent.be/~loginname.