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Bernd Pollermann IT/User Support
The main objective of this article is to describe the present
possibilities of giving access
to both personal and service Web-pages
from the Web-version of
xwho
.
For simplicity reasons I will concentrate on how things are done now, and,
for the sake of completeness, there will also be an example of how to
create a personal homepage.
Personal homepages
A personal homepage is a Web-page
describing the professional activities
and background of a person working at CERN.
If you have a personal homepage
and you know its URL, do the following in order
to allow access to it from xwho
:
- Call
(x)userinfo
on your preferred
platform.
- Type the homepage URL into the appropriate field (without
the prefix
http://
) and save this change of your personal data.
This could be, for example, wwwinfo.cern.ch/~loginid
.
- Wait until next morning.
You will then find a clickable link, represented by the word
(homepage), added to your entry in xwho
.
If you do not have a homepage and you have access to a public
UNIX service (AFS-based) you can easily create one. Just
do the following after logging in:
- Type the command "
webaccess
", which will create
the directory ~/www
with the adequate AFS ACLs.
- Put or edit your homepage in this sub-directory
~/www
with filename Welcome.html
.
Immediately after you have done this you can access
your homepage under the URL:
http://home.cern.ch/~loginid
with loginid
being your username.
Service homepages
A service homepage is a Web-page
describing (usually together with a set of "subpages")
all aspects of a service offered by a single person,
a team or even people in different groups.
It informs the user why (s)he might need this
service, how to start it and how to use it normally.
Usually, it will also warn the user about potential
pitfalls and offer further reading
for advanced users.
Example of a service homepage:
http://consult.cern.ch/service/mail
Giving access to a service homepage from xwho
We encourage the teams with
service entries registered into the CCDB database (so called
"Service Users", like Mail Support),
to allow their service homepage to be accessed
from xwho
. The procedure
of doing this is the following:
- Verify that the homepage of the service represents well
the service and respects the (divisional/CERN) guidelines
for this type of pages.
- Send the name of the "Service User" and the URL of the service
homepage to
Xwho.Service@cern.ch
.
- You will then receive a mail informing you whether the link will be
established and when.
Just as for persons,
the clickable word (homepage)
is added to the entry of the "Service User" in xwho
.
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