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Comment: Added a note about needing to connect to the VPN under the "Editing Your Site" section.

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Where <netid> is replaced with your actual NetID (without the <>).

Editing your site

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Note: If you are working remotely and/or not local to the College Station TAMU campus you will need to be connected to the TAMU College Station VPN to connect to the SFTP Server to edit your site.

You will edit your site by using an SFTP client to connect to the people authoring site people-edit.engr.tamu.edu.

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Following these guidelines when adding content to your site:

  1. If you want to hand out a URL with a directory instead of a file (e.g. https://people.tamu.edu/netid), you will need to add an index.html file to the directory so that a page will load.

  2. All files must have an extension (i.e. end with .html, .txt, .jpg, etc.).

  3. Directories cannot have a dot (“.”) in the name or they will not work properly.

To start building your page, create an index.html file on your local machine and upload it to your directory. 

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Open the FileZilla application

Add a new site

  1. Go to File > Site Manager

  2. In the following pop up window, click on the New Site button on the left side

  3. Type people-edit into the field that pops up

  4. Select SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol from the Protocol dropdown on the right side

  5. Type in people-edit.engr.tamu.edu into the Host field

  6. Type your NetID into the User field

  7. Type your NetID password into the Password field (this will be removed if you opt not to have your password remembered in step 9).

  8. Click OK

  9. Choose either Save Password to have your password remembered, or Do Not Save Password to enter it each time. It is more secure to pick the latter option.

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Connect to your site

  1. Go to File > Site Manager

  2. In the following pop up window, click on people-edit on the left side

  3. Click on the Connect button

  4. When prompted with the security warning, check the Always trust this host, add this key to the cache box and click OK

Add a Welcome Page to your site

  1. Create a directory just for housing your website files called Engineering People Site and make a note of where the directory lives

  2. Create a file named index.html in your newly created Engineering People Site directory using your favorite text editor and place the following contents in the file:

    Code Block
    <html>

<header>

<title>Welcome to my site!</title>

</header>


<body>

<h2>Welcome to my site!</h2>

</body>


</html>

  3. View your new index.html page locally in your browser by going to your favorite web browser, going to File > Open, and browsing to your new page. Once you are satisfied with the page, proceed to the next step.

  4. Connect to the people-edit site by using the directions under Connect to Your Site

  5. In the upper left window of FileZilla, navigate to the Engineering People Site directory that you created earlier. You will see the index.html file in the lower left window.

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  1. FileZilla people-edit directoryImage Added

  2. Right-click on the index.html file in the lower left window and select Upload

  3. If the file is new, then it will be uploaded and you will be finished. However, if you make edits to the file and upload it again, the file will already exist on the server and you will receive a prompt about how to handle overriding the file. The easiest option is to always override the file on the server.

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  1. Overwrite Target file already existsImage Added

    You can now view your site in the browser by going to people.engr.tamu.edu/<netid> (replacing <netid> with your actual NetID)

Note

Due to server-side caching, it may take up to two minutes for your changes to appear; this is why it is important to develop your page on your local machine before uploading it.

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