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+==== Web Server ====
+The Computer Science department runs a web server for ''%%www.cs.virginia.edu%%'', and everyone who has a CS account gets space to host personal web pages.  This web server is capable of executing ''%%php%%'' code.
+Your site is hosted under the ''%%www.cs.virginia.edu%%'' domain name.  The URL path to your web space is ''%%www.cs.virginia.edu/~userid%%''. Your userid is the userid with which you login to CS servers (ex. "abc1de"). The string ''%%~userid%%'' is a special string that expands to the path to your [[storage_home_directories|home directory]].  The web server automatically sees this path and translates it to the location where your web files are stored.
+=== Where to put html/php files ===
+The easiest way to access your home directory is by logging in to the portal servers.  You can do this via ssh: [[linux_ssh_access|Linux SSH Access]]
+In your [[storage_home_directories|home directory]], there is a folder called ''%%public_html/%%''.  If you put a file called ''%%index.html%%'' into ''%%public_html/%%'', you can then browse to ''%%https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~userid%%'' and get a webpage as shown below.
+{{:webpage.png|}}
+Here's the ~/public_html/index.html file used:
+<code>
+<html>
+<head>
+  <title>Paul Henderson</title>
+</head>
+<h1>
+Hello world!
+</h1>
+</html>
+</code>
+=== Symlinks ===
+You may be tempted to create a symlink in your web space that points to a file in another user's home directory, or some other location.  This will in fact work, however if the other user leaves the department or moves to a different storage partition, your site may break because the target file has moved.