Accessing your web home page content

Content for Maths users' personal webpages such as HTML pages, images and web scripts is stored in a sub-directory of a user's default ICNFS home directory called public_html. ICNFS home directories used to be hosted by ICT but since April 20^th are now hosted on a Maths server which in turn exports PWP data from a user's public_html folder to the College's central webfarm. These changes will be transparent to most users except for those who either mapped their ICNFS home directory to a Windows network drive or mounted this as a share on a Mac system using the Windows SMB/CIFS protocol; these users will now no longer be able to access their public_html folder for adding, editing or deleting web content in this way since support for SMB/CIFS is not available on the new Maths ICNFS server.

An alternative access method is to use either scp or sftp to upload or download content to your public_html folder via the lovelace server (lovelace.ma.ic.ac.uk) in Maths, on which all Maths users' ICNFS home directories are mounted. lovelace is accessible from anywhere within the College via a system connected to the College's wired Ethernet network, via the Imperial WPA wi-fi network and remotely via both the Unified Access/Zscaler service and through the Maths ssh gateways. An example of a file upload to a user public_html folder from a remote Mac computer connected via Unified Access is shown below, in which the HTML file called webpage.html is uploaded from a Mac outside the College, connected via Unified Access, using the Mac scp command line utility:

The scp utility is available on all Linux, MacOS and other UNIX systems and can also be downloaded & installed on Android and ChromeOS devices; versions with a graphical interface are available for Windows and also for Linux, MacOS, etc. It is also possible to use sftp instead of scp and again, both command line and GUI versions are available for most operating systems.