Assignment I - Intro to Server
Created Wednesday 26 May 2021
This simple assignment will ensure that everyone has access to some of the basic tools required for this course. Roughly, you will create a simple webpage (or pages) by exporting content from a tool, upload that page, and turn in the URL.
Creating the page(s)
Use either Zim ( http://zim-wiki.org )
OR another Markdown editor, e.g.:
https://remarkableapp.github.io/
https://typora.io/
https://marktext.app/
https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/
or even https://pandoc.org/
Include some non-standard formatting, e.g. Headers, Bold, Bulletpoints, etc; the content is up to you. Please avoid e.g. Microsoft Word for this task.
Export the page(s)
All of the above have some function to export to HTML, do so. In Zim it is simply File -> Export, then follow the prompts. Most defaults are fine, but feel free to play around.
Upload the Page(s)
Upload your pages to Torch, a la
https://torch.cci.fsu.edu/
Ensure that your page (or your first main page if doing multiple) is available at the following. Case sensitive, and please do not deviate from this format:
https://torch.cci.fsu.edu/~FSUID/intro/home.html
(note the tilde, and of course replace "FSUID" with your fsuID)
How to do this:
All of the following is doable in filezilla or any other file transfer program.
Please note the following quirks (actually, fundamentals) of the server. Roughly, this has to do with remembering that the file structure in the server does not map perfectly to the correct URL. Your home folder in torch is the following:
/home/FSUID
Meaning that the main filesystem has a folder named "home" and in that folder are everybody's "home folders," including yours.
/home/FSUID/public_html refers to a particular folder in your home folder. This one is special because anything you place here will be publicly available as a file, and if it is an html file, then torch knows to "render" it as a web page. However, to keep things organized, I would like you to make another folder in there, called "intro", and finally put your main page in that "intro" folder, called "home.html" — again, all of this should be case sensitive. Thus, from the server, this file will be
/home/FSUID/public_html/intro/home.html
and will be available via the url above.
Wrapping up
Once you have everything uploaded and tested, simply turn in that working URL as text in the Canvas Assignment. Feel free to include any questions or comments. Good luck!