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Redbrick sites for each user are located at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~username.
Redbrick sites for each user are located at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~username.
(where username is your RedBrick username)


The webserver automatically looks for the public_html folder in that person's home directory. It then looks for the index.html file in that folder. If it can't find either of them it will return an error.
In PuTTY or WinSCP your website is contained in a folder called public_html


== Permissions ==
== Permissions ==


It is important to make sure that the webpages have the correct [[File Permissions|file permissions]], or they won't be visible to others. File permissions determine who can access your file. Your public_html folder needs to be readable, writable and executable to yourself and executable to everyone else. The files in your public_html need to be readable and writable to yourself but only readable to everyone else.  
Before you can do anything with your website you need to know a little about permissions. [[File Permissions|File permissions]] control who can access your files on the RedBrick server. For your website to be accessible the right permissions need to be set. For files that is 644, and for folders it is 711. (We wont go into what the numbers mean right now, but you can read about it [http://www.december.com/unix/tutor/permissions.html here] if you want)


You can change file permissions using the chmod command. The following commands will set the correct permissions for your public_html folder and index.html:
In WinSCP you can change the permissions for a file/folder by right clicking on it, and selecting properties.  


In PuTTY permissions can be set with the "chmod" command
  chmod 711 public_html
  chmod 711 public_html
  chmod 644 public_html/index.html
  chmod 644 public_html/index.html


You can also change file permissions through WinSCP. Open WinSCP and login, then simply right click the files and go to Properties, where you can choose the file permissions by clicking. [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/services/downloads/winscp360.exe Download WinSCP]
== Making HTML Pages ==


== Setup Code ==
The language that ordinary webpages are written is called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). You can create HTML pages on your own computer and upload them to RedBrick.


Once that is okay, all you have to concentrate on is your index.html and the other pages you wish to put on the web. Here's some html code to get your feet off the ground. Just type nano ~/public_html/index.html and insert the following code:
There are many programs that will make HTML pages for you - both Microsoft Word and Open Office Writer will allow you to save documents as HTML pages you can upload to RedBrick. There are also specialist programs for making webpages such as Macromedia Dreamweaver. Alternatively you could write your own HTML code (the EditPlus installed on CA lab computers is good for this, and [http://www.w3schools.com/html/ this tutorial] will help you get started).
 
Once you're happy with the page(s) you've made you can upload them to your public_html folder with [[Transferring Files|winscp]]. Don't forget that the permissions for all your files need to be set to 644 and all folders 711 (including the public_html folder)
 
When people go to your website (http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~username) the first file they'll see is the index.html, so make sure to call the main page of your website index.html
 
== Install Your Own Blog ==
 
Setting up your blog will take slightly longer than putting up your first webpage, but once it's setup editing it and adding new pages is as easy e-mail.
 
Of course, you can install and run any blogging software you like, but we've created a script that does all the hard work and installs the WordPress blog.
 
Connect to RedBrick with PuTTY and run these commands in your terminal:
cd ~/public_html
~receive/bin/install-wordpress
 
The install will take 5-10 minutes to run. While it's running you'll need to ask the admins for access to the MySQL database. To get this email admins(AT)redbrick.dcu.ie, tell them that you'd like MySQL access for your wordpress blog.
 
Once the installer has completed your blog will be located at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~USERNAME/blog. Go to that page in your web browser and click "the create a wp-config.php file through a web interface" link. Here you'll be asked for your name and e-mail address, as well as the MySQL details (the admins will e-mail them back to you)
 
If you want people to see your blog when they go to your website at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~USERNAME this can be done with a re-direct, just run this command in PuTTY
  cp ~receive/bin/wordpress-redirect.html ~/public_html/index.html; chmod 644 ~/public_html/index.html
 
 
== Writing HTML on RedBrick ==
 
If you want to write your pages on RedBrick here's some html code to get your feet off the ground. Just type nano ~/public_html/index.html and insert the following code:


  <html>
  <html>
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