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CAOS Forums => Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Fred Jones on 2002-08-30T17:16:12-05:00 (Friday)

Title: Siue personal WEB PAGE
Post by: Fred Jones on 2002-08-30T17:16:12-05:00 (Friday)
I wanted to ask how i update the html file from the default web page SIUE gives you that says
"This user has not
yet developed a
personal web site."
THX
Title: Siue personal WEB PAGE
Post by: Peter Motyka on 2002-08-30T17:19:12-05:00 (Friday)
You need to SSH/telnet to cougar.siue.edu and edit $HOME/html/index.html
Or, you could create a new index.html on your local computer and upload it via FTP.

Peter
Title: Re:
Post by: Stiffler on 2002-09-01T15:16:52-05:00 (Sunday)
Speaking of webpages, mine's bad. See for yourself : http://www.siue.edu/~jscrugg/ (http://www.siue.edu/~jscrugg/). I need better backgrounds while I'm at it.

Jon
Title: Re:
Post by: Ryan Lintker on 2002-09-05T18:24:29-05:00 (Thursday)
Is there anything special that one needs to do in order to be allowed to ftp cougar from off campus?  When I was on campus, I had no trouble ftp'ing cougar, but now on the network in my apartment, I can't connect via ftp.  Major and solar give me no problems.

I wonder if it is a local network issue here, or is cougar a picky server.
Title: Re:
Post by: Stiffler on 2002-09-05T18:33:27-05:00 (Thursday)
Did you try SSHing in to the server? I have no problems connecting to it from the Res Halls.

Jon
Title: Re:
Post by: William Grim on 2002-09-05T20:28:59-05:00 (Thursday)
Cougar is a picky server; OIT doesn't appear to know what they're doing.
Title: Re:
Post by: Peter Motyka on 2002-09-06T02:13:50-05:00 (Friday)
If you want to ftp to your SIUE webspace, ftp to "ftp.siue.edu".  If you use your cougar login it will drop you into your cougar folder.  Actually, your home directory is stored on a nfs server that is connected to from ftp.siue.edu, www.siue.edu, mail.siue.edu and cougar.siue.edu.

Peter
Title: Re:
Post by: Ryan Lintker on 2002-09-06T09:01:05-05:00 (Friday)
Thanks Peter.  That worked wonderfully.  Now I have no good excuse for having a pathetic website.
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Post by: Peter Motyka on 2002-09-06T09:34:45-05:00 (Friday)
Also, for everyone who choses not to use your @siue.edu email.  You can drop a file in your cougar home directory that will forward your email to an alternet address.

This file must be named ".forward" and will have the email you want your mail forwarded to on the first line of the file.

By doing this, you can still look uber cool with a .edu email and still have the joys of yahoo or hotmail web-based email.

Peter
Title: Re:
Post by: Ryan Lintker on 2002-09-06T10:07:16-05:00 (Friday)
Does cougar strip out most of the junk email/spam that one would receive in a hotmail/yahoo/aol account?  I've used both of my email addresses, but I never seem to get that junk in my SIUE address.
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Post by: Guest on 2002-09-06T11:17:27-05:00 (Friday)
i get nothing but junk in my siue email....

around 20 or so junk mails per day..almost all containing one of the many viruses out there....

Title: Re:
Post by: Chris Swingler on 2002-09-13T20:07:55-05:00 (Friday)
I've been pretty careful about who I give my SIUE email address to.  I've recieved one peice of spam (I posted on a message board that puts your email address publicly;  all the people are complaining on that board.), and I quit putting my SIUE address down there.  I haven't recieved a virus (though I have recieved several notifications from OIT that they have recieved a virus),  and the only unsolicited mail I get is from the university itself (Education Pre-Majors!  Did you know you need to take an exam?  Wait, I'm an ECE major!).  Anyway, that's just my rambling.

(I hope these HTML tags get processed properly, otherwise I'll just feel dumb)

--Beanie
Title: Re:
Post by: Stiffler on 2002-09-13T20:58:13-05:00 (Friday)
Look right above the box you enter that message in. There are bold, Italics, Underlined, and even Underlined Italicised bold.  :-)  Same commands, just replace the "<" with the "[" and the ">" with the "]".

Jon
Title: Re:
Post by: Chris Swingler on 2002-09-13T23:31:16-05:00 (Friday)
Congrats, stiff.  Now I feel really dumb.  But I think that using [] instead of <> is a little nonstandard.  Screw it, I'll just start using the good 'ol standbys, _underline_ and *bold*.  

= :-D for everyone else.

--Beanie  
Title: Re:
Post by: William Grim on 2002-09-13T23:36:15-05:00 (Friday)
Damn right, _this_ works!
Title: Re:
Post by: Peter Motyka on 2002-09-14T01:31:15-05:00 (Saturday)
I bet xoops forces you to use the non-standard [] delimiters so that you cannot insert arbitrary html code.  If it had no means to verify code, users could insert malicious javascript and such.  Input verification should be possible without having to use non-standard notation... Perhaps it is faster to search for the [] tags and apply rules to them rather than checking all the <> tags.

Peter
Title: Re:
Post by: Stiffler on 2002-09-14T08:54:45-05:00 (Saturday)
You got it right.  :-D

Jon