Steps to Display Your HTML Files: (In courtesy to Dr. Ge)

  1. Create the following directories in your home directory: 
    % cd
% mkdir public_html
  2. Change the permissions of some directories: 
    % cd
% chmod 711 . 
% chmod 711 public_html
  3. Write your first CGI program in directory ~/cs540/htdocs 
    % cd ~/public_html
% cat > hello.html
<html>
<body>
<center> <h1>Hello World!</h1> </center>
</body>
</html>
ctr+D <--- type control+D here

% chmod 644 hello.html
  4. Open a netscape browser window, and type the following URL in location line: 
    http://www.cs.twsu.edu/~xyz/hello.html
    where xyz is your account name. Type the return key and you will see the "hello world" string displayed on the screen.
Note: A much easier way to display the HTML file is to invoke the netscape browser directly: 
% netscape file:`pwd`/hello.html &
After you modified the HTML file, you just need to click the 'reload' button on the netscape screen to view the changes.