General Information for CGS 3994

• JavaScript Information
  • I have added a directory for all the scripts from chapter 10 of the text.
  • JavaScript Examples and Information
• PERL Script Information.
  • I have added an information page for the topics of cookies, server push, browers pull, and file uploads. This information can all fit into one category: modifying the headers that the server and browser send.
  • I have added a directory named scripts to my server. You have access to it, just set up a ScriptAlias in your server, or use my server to access it.
  • I have added a directory named scripts-source to my server. You may look at its contents. If you select a script drom the index, then the contents of the script will be displayed.
  • I have added a new page with links to some of these scripts and their sources.
• Assignments
  • Updated 4/10. Assignment 5, due Thursday, 4/16 at the start of class.
  • Assignment 4, due Tuesday 3/31 at the start of class.
  • The test_parse.pl script is now in the directory /home/scsfac/downeyt/scripts. In order to use it as an action for your form, you must add my scripts directory to your server as a directory for scripts. You do not need to delete the cgi-bin script alias, you are allowed to have several scripting directories. Don't forget to HUP the server.
    • ScriptAlias /scripts/ /home/scsfac/downeyt/scripts/
    • Then in your form use the action attribute to send data to the script:
      action="/scripts/test_parse.pl"
  • I have had a few questions about Language Negotiation and Adding Icons. I have also consolidated all the other messages about assignment 3 concerning <VirtualHost *:port> and AuthFile. If you are having problems with these, check out this help file for assignment 3.
  • Extension: Assignment 3, due 3/3 at the start of class.
  • Warning: Be sure that the file hello.cgi has world execute in each directory for assignment 2:
    chmod 501 hello.cgi
  • Assignment 2, due 2/5 at the start of class
  • FAQ: Why won't the <P align="..."> tag work?
  • Assignment 1, due 1/22 at the start of class.
• Exam information
  • Final Exam Topics
  • Midterm Review Topics
• General Course Information
  • Syllabus
  • Creating a Web directory on solix
• Information related to accessing school resources
  • Information on the pine e-mail program
  • School Accounts
  • Connecting to the school from home
  • How to FTP to solix
  • Newsgroup and Mail Information
• General Web Information
  • Search Engines
  • Internet Service Providers
  • Mbola Fanomezantsoa's excellent CGS3559 homepage
• HTML Information
  • HTML codes for a basic web page
  • Netscape Gold HTML Editor
  • Experiment with colors

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School Accounts

Getting a school account

As long as you are a registered student, you can have an account to use the school's computers. This account is not needed to use the PCs in the computer labs, but it is needed to long onto the computers with names: solix, serss1, xlab1, servax, servms. The account that you get will give you access to all of these computers.

To get the account, you must connect to the servms computer. When you are prompted for a user name, type the single word (no spaces) NEWSTUDENT. You will then be asked some information like name and student number. Then you will be given a user name and a password. Write them down! Then you will be logged off the computer. You won't be able to access the computers for another 24 hours, while your account is being activated.

In the future, you will use your user name and password to log onto any of the named computers.

Changing Passwords

Once you have a school account, it is good for many computers here at FIU: servms, servax, serss1, solix. However you have two passwords, one for servms and servax, the other for serss1 and solix. You should change both passwords to something other than your student number.

Changing your password on servax and servms

From the command prompt on servax and servms, issue the command

        set password

in order to change your password. You will be asked for three things:

• Your current password
• Your new password
• Your new password, again

Changing your password on serss1 and solix

From the command prompt on serss1 and solix, issue the command

        passwd

in order to change your password. You will be asked for three things:

• Your current password
• Your new password
• Your new password, again

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FAQ: Why won't the <P align="..."> tag work?

Many people are having difficulty getting the <P align="right"> working. The problem is with the header tags that start the paragraphs: Do not include the header tags inside the paragraph. Do it this way

<h1>Heading</h1>
<P align="right">
Paragraph
</P>

This will get it working. The same applies for "left" and "center".

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