The CUED Control Group WWW server


IMPORTANT CHANGES

We are now running our own server, and therefore soon (its happened already! our html directory will no longer be available through the old link "http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pollyhtml/sl1/sl1.html" , (for example). The replacement for this is "http://polly.eng.cam.ac.uk/sl1/sl1.html". I also advise using relative specifications for personal files. For example, if I have the file /home/html/sl1/subdir/file.html, then from the file /home/html/sl1/sl1.html I can reference that as HREF="subdir/file.html".

The other major change is access control. You can now put a file called "ACCESS" in a any directory, an example of which is /home/html/sl1/engonly/ACCESS, to restrict access to particular machines. There is also an example /home/html/extras/ctrlonly/ACCESS which restricts access to just the control group machines.

With this access control, we can place published material electronically available only to the members of the group - and thus avoid breaking copyright regulations since this is not publicly available.

The original notice

Well, this info is mainly for the members of CUED control group at the moment. The idea is that we have a directory on our machines, /home/html, under which all members of the group have their own subdirectory. eg. my html directory is /home/html/sl1. In that directory you can put a file, called $user.html. This is your personal home page.

The file is written in HTML - HyperText Macro Language (I think). See my home page for an example - /home/html/sl1/sl1.html

This file can then point to other files which you think are of interest to the rest of the world. In particular, this system is intended to give people access to technical reports written by members of the control group. You can include dvi files, postscript files, and just plain text files, as well as a lot of other file types.

Then, anybody using Mosaic (or any other world wide wed client) can point their client at "http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/" to see our stuff. It is not necessary to restrict your links to point only to local files. You can point them at other places also. The link names have the form

protocol://host/filename

For example, files in my /home/html are referenced by

http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pollyhtml/sl1/whatever