[Penguicon-tech] fwd: Getting access to the Penguicon web page.

[Rob L. <la...@tr...>]

A few people told me they missed this posting at the concom meeting, so h=
ere=20
it is again.

Rob

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Subject: [Penguicon-general] Getting access to the Penguicon web page.
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:29:19 -0500
From: Rob Landley <la...@tr...>
To: tr...@ca..., pen...@li...

I have officially given up on finding the little piece of paper everybody=
 who
wants web page access wrote their email addresses down on.  Would the peo=
ple
who want web page access please do the following:

1) Figure out what page(s) you want to maintain, and what links you want =
from
the main index (at the left edge of all the pages) to your pages.  Note t=
hat
I'm going to be redoing that index to be a hierarchical menu soon, possib=
ly
doing the whole expand/contract thing if I feel industrious enough to bre=
ak
out my book on javascript.  So don't worry about the current one being ug=
ly
and taking up too much space, I already know. :)

2) Get a sourceforge account.  The main www.sf.net webpage has a login li=
nk
 on the left and you can create a new account there (direct create new
 account link is next to the login, I believe).

3) Figure out how to use ssh and scp.  (Respectively, they're the "secure
shell" and "secure copy" programs.  They're like encrypted versions of te=
lnet
and ftp.)  Linux users have these installed by default.

On windows machines, there's a nice package called "putty" that some
 bilingual (windows and BSD) folks in england wrote.  It does ssh, and yo=
u
 can download it here:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

(Don't forget to click "use scp" instead of the default "use telnet" each
 time you try to make a connection. No, I don't know why that's the defau=
lt,
 telnet comes built in to windows...)

There's a similar program "puscp" from the same people, which does "secur=
e
copy" of files.  You'll probably need to set that up too.

Make sure you can login to "shell.sf.net" with ssh, and copy files to and
 from your directory with scp.

4) Email me and tell me your new sourceforge username, and the list of pa=
ges
you figured out you want to own (back in step #1).  I'll grant you access=
 to
the penguicon project, and create a subdirectory for you under penguicon,=
 and
link your pages into it.  (They don't have to immediately go live, just t=
ell
me when you want those links to be added to the menu.  In the meantime, y=
ou
can access your pages as penguicon.sf.net://username/pagename.shtml (wher=
e
both "username" and "pagename.shtml" are not to be taken literally).  I'l=
l
drop a "skeleton.shtml" in your directory so you can what an empty page w=
ith
the menubar and border and everything looks like.  (It's pretty small.)

P.S.  When I link the pages into the site, I can make it look like they'r=
e in
the main directory.  Your subdirectory will be world readable, but nobody
actually has to know it's there if you want to just use it as scratch spa=
ce.
If you do want to link more pages from your sub-page, you can always just
create more pages in your directory and link them using the username/page=
name
syntax above.  If you want to stop people form listing the contents of yo=
ur
directory with their web browsers, just put an index.shtml file in the
directory and they'll see that instead.

5) For easier access to your web subdirectory, ssh to "shell.sf.net" and
login, and type the following command:

ln -s /home/groups/p/pe/penguicon/$USER webpage

Now you can just go "cd webpage" when you login to jump straight to your =
web
subdirectory.  You can also scp files into and out of the directory by go=
ing
"scp filename.shtml penguicon.sf.net:webpage", or "scp
penguicon.sf.net:webpage/filename.shtml blah.shtml".

Now you can just go "cd penguin" to get to your sub-page under penguicon.=
=20
 No, don't try it yet, it isn't there yet.  I'll put it there in the next
 step.

Did I miss anything?

Rob

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