• Start the ssh application (NCSAtelnet for Mac, Putty or SSH for Windows). It will ask you what host to connect to or you may have to press a "connect" button or go to the Edit menu and select Connect. Have ssh connect to the host named web.pdx.edu or one that you've been told to use (e.g. odin.pdx.edu).
• When prompted for login and password enter the Web publisher credentials that you received.
• If you received your account after June 1999 you will enter the PSU Network access menu. You should select the "Change Password" option and use a password that only you know. To get to the Unix command prompt select the "Exit Menu" option.
• If you received your account before June 1999 you will see the Unix prompt after logging in. It should look something like this: "username:~/:1 >" You should then change your password to something that only you know. Do this by typing the command "passwd".

File transfers via FTP

• Please note that "Rapid FTP" from LAN WorkPlace will not work correctly. It is an out of date product that doesn't properly talk to our server.
• If you don't already have one, you can download an FTP program for your Mac, Windows 3.x or Windows 95/NT computer. There's a short tutorial for both the Windows WS-FTP and Mac Fetch programs.
• Start the ftp application and connect to the host web.pdx.edu or one that you've been told to use.
• You will be prompted for your credentials, these are the same as for the ssh login above.
• When it connects, you will be viewing the contents of your home directory.
• You may now use the upload and download features of your ftp application to transfer files. "Upload" typically means that you copy a file from the machine you're in front of to the webserver, and "download" copies the file from the server to the computer in front of you.

Publishing to the Web

• Create your web pages, graphics and other content.
• Start an FTP connection, as described above.
• You will have one of two types of accounts:
  • Normal user with a "personal homepage" -- all users get a homepage where they can tell the world about themselves, share documents, etc.
    • Open the public_html folder that will be visible once you login with FTP.
    • Upload your web files into this folder.
    • Once uploaded, your files will be visible at http://hostname/~username, where hostname is usually web.pdx.edu or something else you were instructed touse, and username is whatever your login name is.
    • Some filenames have special significance and are called "indexes" -- these are index.html, index.htm, index.shtml, index.shtm, index.sht, index.cgi or default.htm. So if my login name is igal,and I put an index.html file into my public_html folder, going to http://web.pdx.edu/~igal will show this index instead of a list of my files.
  • Webmaster of a custom virtual server (ie. http://www.custom.pdx.edu) for your organization, you'll have an additional folder where you can put up a website to represent your organization.
    • You have access to a virtual server, where the hostname, as explained above, is customized to your group.
    • If you are the webmaster(s), you will have a folder called orgname_web, where orgname is the name of your custom hostname. Anything you put into this folder will be visible at http://orgname/, for example http://www.chem.pdx.edu.
    • You also have a personal homepage and indexes work just like normal users, except you should use the orgname appropriately, for example http://www.chem.pdx.edu/~bob.
    • You may be a webmaster of multiple servers, and will have a folder for each of these.
• Go here for tutorials on Using Netscape Composer , Frontpage, or Pagemill to publish to the web.

E-mail

• You will receive mail at username@hostname, where username is the login name, and the hostname is either oit.pdx.edu or another that you will be instructed to use.
• Your e-mail will be forwarded to either whatever e-mail address you specify on your account form, typically this is your Odin Pine or Novell GroupWise account.
• If you wish to change forwarding, put your preferred address in a file called .forward in your home directory -- or delete this file to disable forwarding. You can use Pine, webmail.pdx.edu, IMAP, and POP to read your mail if it's not being forwarded.
• The IMAP and POP server is located at psumail.pdx.edu. In your IMAP or POP client use psumail.pdx.edu for incoming and outgoing mail/smtp server. We also support Secure IMAP and POP through SSL. Internet Explorer 4.x and Netscape 3.x, 4.x allow SSL enabled IMAP and POP. You will need to edit the mail properties and select the "SSL" option. Secure IMAP/POP uses a secure connection to offer privacy to your account and mail.

Common programs

• pine - read email and news.
• pico - edit files.
• lynx - used to browse the Internet.
• gcc - C language compiler
• perl - Perl language interpreter
• perl5 - new Perl language interpreter
• And thousands more that you will find in these folders: /usr/local/bin, /usr/bin, /bin, etc.