Students enrolled in the PhD program and in any of the graduate programs offered by the department may include
a link to their homepage on the departmental web site. If you already have a personal
homepage within the poly.edu domain, simply send the URL, name, email, PhD/graduate
status, and the name of the program you are enrolled in to the webmaster. If you would like to create a homepage, see
below on how to do so.
Please note that we will not directly link to homepages outside the poly.edu domain. If
you already have a personal homepage outside the poly.edu domain, you will need to create
an additional page within the domain that links to your pages.
There are two ways of creating homepages:
1. You can have a homepage on utopia:
Students can get a homepage on utopia.poly.edu. Please
read these pages for more information.
2. You can have a homepage on graduate center machines:
To build a homepage on CIS, a graduate student needs to have an account on the
LC257 cluster (these are the machines platypus, emu, giraffe, etc.). Most PhD students
should have an account on these machines.
To create a home page you need to:
1. Create a directory called public_html under their
home directory.
csh% mkdir ~/public_html
2. Make sure that the public_html directory is publicly readable and that your home
directory is at least searchable:
csh% chmod o+x ~
csh% chmod o+rx ~/public_html
3. Put your web page into the file "index.html" or "index.htm" in your
public_html directory. Make sure that this is also publicly readable:
csh% chmod o+r ~/public_html/index.html
4. Note that any relative links (i.e., for images, secondary
pages, etc.) in your homepage will be resolved in their web page directory. Once your page
has been created, the URL will be:
http://cis.poly.edu/~username where username is your
username on LC257 cluster.
5. To have a link to your page included on the departmental web page, please send your
name, undergraduate/graduate, program(CS, CompE etc.) and URL to the webmaster
