A Guide to setting up a Public Home Page on Pegasus

Step-by-step instructions

At the pegasus command prompt type: homepagesetup
This will call a script which will do most of the setup for you. Read the informational messages and it will tell you exactly what it is doing.
go into the public_html directory and edit the home page (called home.html) to your liking.
type cd public_html to enter the public_html directory from your home directory.
The editor used by Pine is called pico. Type pico home.html to edit your home page once you are in the public_html directory.
type: lynx http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~USERID/ with your userid in place of USERID to make sure that it works. Or, in Mosaic and derivitives, select "open url" and enter http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~USERID/.

Why does everything have to be in the public_html directory?: Actually, it doesn't, but public_html is where the server will look when it is given the ~USERID path statement.
What does this .htaccess file do?: That is the file that the server looks for to allow people to get documents from a directory. By default, access to a directory is restricted unless there is a .htaccess file to override that setting.
Note: If you create a subdirectory under public_html, you will need to copy the .htaccess file into that directory.
Why do I get a page saying "This document has moved here" with a link to my home page?: That is because you left off the closing slash after your userid. Try it again with the slash.
I have added other pages, but I keep getting "403 Forbidden" errors? or Why aren't my images being loaded?: Whenever you add files, you will probably have to change the rights so that people can access the files. To do this, go into your public_html directory and do a "chmod a+r *". This will grant read rights for everyone (a+r means "all add read") to all the normal files (the "*"). Try accessing the file again and see if it works.