Transcript How to access your Pegasus account

CGS2100 Lab
Today’s Topic
Setup your homepage in
Pegasus account
Step 1: Using Putty
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You may find it on lab PCs’ desktop, an icon
named “putty”.
Login to pegasus.cc.ucf.edu using an SSH
(Secure Shell) client like putty.
Step 2: Connect to Pegasus using PUTTY
Enter pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
here
Choose SSH protocol here
Login username: NID
Password: the SAME as your Pegasus email password
Password is invisible
here. (No stars or dots)
Prepare Your Public_HTML Folder
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Once you get into your Pegasus account, type
homepagesetup at the prompt. This will do several things to
make your account ready to receive html pages that can be
viewed by anyone. It will...
create a public_html folder that will store all web pages and
images you want people to be able to access
set permissions for this folder so that anyone can view the
contents of the folder, but only you can save files to this folder
insert a dummy web page called home.html in the new
public_html folder that you can use as a sample
1. Enter homepagesetup command
2. Then you are all set!
Your “dummy” webpage
Access the dummy page at
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~yourNID
This is your homepage address
Publish to Your Pegasus Web Space
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Publishing a web page means uploading
web pages and any associated files
(images, audio, etc.) to a web server so
that other people can view the pages by
typing in the their URL in a web browser
(e.g. Internet Explorer).
Get files from website
Images
 View source
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Upload files to your webspace
1.
In the address bar of your browser, type:
ftp://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/
and Input your NID and password.
NID here
Upload files to your webspace
2. This will open up access to your account.
You should see a mail folder and the
public_html folder. Enter public_html folder
Double click this one
Upload files to your webspace
3.To publish, select and drag the files from
your computer to the public_html folder on
your Pegasus account.
The new picture I
just published
Upload files to your webspace
4. While viewing the contents of your public_html
folder, delete the home.html page that was created
automatically when you typed homepagesetup.
Delete this file
Upload files to your webspace
5. After you drag the appropriate files into the public_html
folder on your Pegasus server, you can view those pages by
entering the URL from any Internet connected computer.
The URL is
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~yourNID/fullFileName
(including extension name)
Assignment
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Assignment 1.
You must use yourPegasus account to
submit this assignment.
Due by 11:59:59pm on January 28
You are responsible for saving all copies
of your sent mail.