Goal:
- Learn
how to set up your own person web page on Unix machines.
- Get familiar with uccsvpn access to walrus.uccs.edu server.
- Understand the concepts and services provided by the web system.
Assignment
Date: 1/18/2012
Due Day: 1/25/2012
Related documents:
- http://cs.uccs.edu/~cs526/intro2.ppt
Description:
Logistics:
- For this class we have setup two Fedora Core 16 Linux walrus.uccs.edu and gandalf.uccs.edu with a user account for you, using the same ufp account name but with password starting with #a followed by SID. Note that these two servers are behind uccs firewall. You need to set up uccsvpn befpre accessing its web server and sshd server.
- We will use EAS VMware cluster for our Linux Virtual Server Cluster and web system exercises. It requires you to login with your ufp account and password.
Part 1. Create CS526 Personal Web Page.
- Establish uccsvpn first.
- Use SSH Secure Shell Client or Putty to create a terminal session to walrus.uccs.edu. You can also use SSH Secure File Transfer to transfer files to walrus but make sure you take care of DOS/Unix file format differences.
- Create a personal web
page http://walrus.uccs.edu/~<login>/cs526/<login>.html with your name, email address, recent photo (close-up similar to passport photo,
so that we can recognize your face) and your research interests in advanced
Internet and web systems. Put your recent photo in ~<login>/public_html/cs526/images/<login>.jpg.
Email me the url of the web page by 1/25/2012. Here <login> is your ufp login.
- See an example of cs591 personal web page at http://cs.uccs.edu/~canders2/cs591/canders2.html
- Once I received your url of the web page, I will run a perl script to copy your images to our class photo album web page: http://walrus.uccs.edu/~cs526/CS526S2012Photo.html
- Try to adjust the picture position by changing the margin-left attribute value in <login>.html. For example here we use stedila as login.
<img src="images/stedla.jpg" width="158" style="position: absolute; top: 16px; left: 50%; margin-left: 290px">
- CSS is critical to current web page and web application development. We all cover them a little bit.
See http://walrus.uccs.edu/~cs301/css/ and http://www.w3schools.com/css/ for more info.
Part 2. Check your access to EAS vCenter.
- Access https://eas-vcenter02.uccs.edu/ download vSphere client if you are using Windows at home.
- You can also access the ratsfarm.uccs.edu to use the vsphere client there. (Some of you indicates it is slow; it is being fixed). EN138 PCs has vsphere client installed.
- Sean Staple, our EAS administrator, has provided us with the following two documents related to the access of EAS VMware cluster.
- If you are using Apple MacOS, right now the best approach is to install vbox (free from oracle) and a windows 7 or xp virtual machine. Then you can install vsphere client application or access web-based interface through IE or firefox.
- Once vsphere client app is installed. Click on it and fill in your ufp account and password (not the one for walrus).
- You should see the EAS cluster, select "vm and cluster" you should see the cs5260 folder. Open it up and verify that you have seen chow_f16vm1 there.
- We will create a folder with your login name. You can create virtual machine there or I will clone a few vms for our exercises in that folder.
