Job Aid:
Activating Web services on Ouray using Terminal on a Mac
On this page you will find the following sections:
- Step 1: Determine your Ouray user name and password
- Step 2: Run Terminal and connect to Ouray
- Step 3: Activate your Ouray Web services
- What the "makehomepage" command does
Step 1: Determine your Ouray user name and password
Visit https://ouray.cudenver.edu/prfw/chpass.cgi. On this Web page, click the "Student account activition form" link as shown below:
On the page that's displayed, click the "acceptable use policy" link. Read these policies and then click the Back button on your browser. if you agree to follow the UC Denver Acceptable Use Policies, click the check box and enter your Student ID Number and PIN (these are the login numbers you use for the SMART system).
Click the "Proceed" button on the form. On the new page that's displayed, you will see your Ouray user name. Also, follow the instructions on this page to set your Ouray password. You can either have the server select a random password or you can choose your own password. You will need to use your Ouray user name and password for many Web authoring activities.
If you forget your password, you can return to https://ouray.cudenver.edu/prfw/chpass.cgi and select the top link (see the image above).
Step 2: Run Terminal and connect to Ouray
If you use OS X on a Mac, you should have a native utility application called Terminal (it's most likely in the Applications > Utility directory of your Mac). When you launch that application you should see a screen that looks like the image below (though you probably won't see the same exact information, particularly the content highlighted in red):
From the File menu, select "Connect to Server..."
A new window will appear:
Click the "plus" button on the lower right side of the dialog box (circled in red above). This will cause an extra window to appear within the dialog box. Enter ouray.cudenver.edu (as shown below) in this extra window and click the OK button.
Select the items in the Connect to Server dialog box as circled below in red. Type your Ouray user name in the User text box:
Now, click the Connect button on the dialog box. A new Ssh window will display:
Enter your Ouray password and press the Return key. Don't be surprised if the cursor doesn't move and no characters are displayed. If your password is not accepted, try again. If on the second try your password is still not accepted, you may need to reset your password (see the info on this near the top of this page).
Step 3: Activate your Ouray Web services
Once your password is accepted, more information will start to display in your Ssh window. At the line "TERM = (unknown)" press the Return key. At the % sign prompt enter the command:
makehomepage
and press the Return key.
Your Ssh window will now display even more information (the rest of the information below will not appear immediately):
Follow the screen prompts and instructions that you receive from Ouray for entering your first and last name. You are not required to enter a nickname.
Make a note of the reminder about UC Denver WWW Policy. The UC Denver Computing policies are located at http://www.cudenver.edu/Resources/Policies+and+Procedures/Computing/default.htm. Take time now to review them.
When the % sign prompt returns, you will have completed the process. Disconnect from Ouray through the command in the File menu and quit the Terminal program.
What the "makehomepage" command does
This command will create a public_html directory in "root" directory of your Ouray account. The public_html directory is the directory to which all of your HTML files and folders should be uploaded. The administrators of the Ouray server have also programmed the makehomepage command to create two files and place them in your public_html directory. One of these files is named index.html and the other is named .homeidrxc .
Executing the makehomepage command is typically a one-time only process. If you execute the command on an account that already has a public_html directory, it will erase that existing public_html directory and its contents, and replace it with a fresh public_html containing just the index.html file and the .homeidrxc file.
At this point, you may want to test your account in a Web browser. Point your browser to http://ouray.cudenver.edu/~yourOurayUserName . You should see the index.html page generated by the account activation process. Don't worry that it looks strange when you view your index.html through a Web browser:
As was indicated earlier, your Ouray home page (a portion of which is shown above) is an auto-generated page created by the "makehomepage" command. It looks kind of funky because none of the graphics are displaying correctly (that's what that box with the red X in the screen shot above means). That's not your fault--the Ouray server administrators have misplaced the images! Since the administrators of the server control this particular set of images, there's nothing you can do at this point to make the images display.
Over time, you will acquire Web authoring skills and will replace this auto-generated home page with one that looks much better and is personalized to you. And, you'll be in control of your own images.
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