FTPing: create directories on Hercules

You need the directory "public_html" at the top level of your Hercules account. This directory must contain the file "index.html" which acts as your home page. I recommend that you create a directory called "images" inside public_html to contain your GIF images. The following sequence assumes that neither of these directories exists and creates both. Finally, the correct permissions are established for the directories, including your home directory. Your home directory has the same name as your username.

NOTE: we start this session from the point where the user 
has just logged into Hercules.

hercules[2]% mkdir public_html

*** the above command, mkdir, creates a directory. The 
directory structure on Unix is very similar to DOS so you 
might want to review an introductory book on DOS.

hercules[2]% ls

*** "ls" is equivalent to the DOS "dir" command. The
contents of the directory are listed. Notice that public_html
is shown with a "/" at the end of the name to reflect that it 
is a directory rather than an ordinary file.

MAC/                  browser1                    rbm
all                   public_html/                replace*
awk.2*


hercules[3]% cd public_html

*** "cd" for change directory repositions the user inside 
the public_html directory. The "images" directory is then 
created inside public_html.


hercules[4]% mkdir images

hercules[5]% ls

images/

*** "chmod" for "change mode" changes the access 
permissions on the images directory. The 755 sets the 9 
bits related to user, group and world access to the file or 
directory.

hercules[6]% chmod 755 images

hercules[7]% ls -l

total 1
drwxr-xr-x    2 rbm2     csugrd       512 May 21 11:28 
images/

*** Now we back up one level and set the permissions for 
public_html.

hercules[8]% cd ..

hercules[9]% chmod 755 public_html

hercules[10]% ls -l

*** the "ls -l" command provides a "long" version of the 
directory listing. Just checking that the permissions were 
changes correctly.

total 218
drwxr-xr-x    5 rbm2     csugrd       512 Jan 21  1993 MAC/
-rw-------    1 rbm2     csugrd     90380 Jan 20  1993 all
-rwx------    1 rbm2     csugrd       265 Mar  1  1993 awk.2*
-rw-------    1 rbm2     csugrd        28 Jan 20  1993 browser1
drwxr-xr-x    3 rbm2     csugrd       512 May 21 11:28 public_html/
-rw-------    1 rbm2     csugrd         9 Mar 25  1993 rbm
-rwxr-xr-x    1 rbm2     csugrd       107 Nov 17  1992 replace*

*** now we back up one more level. This puts us above 
the account and an "ls" lists all the accounts in this area. 
Since this material was captured from an actual session in 
the account "rbm2" on hercules, we see usernames for 
accounts starting with an "r". The final step is to set the 
permissions for the account "rbm2".

hercules[11]% cd ..

hercules[12]% ls

rackow.mail   rashidb/      rezans/       rogan/        runyon/
rackow.save/  ratcli/       rezaza/       romano/       russell/
rahman/       rathee/       rieger/       ross/         ryback/
ramada/       rbm2/         riffel/       rostie/
ramostru/     reid/         riffelk/      rottie/
ranasi/       reinha/       robert/       ruda/
randal/       reschk/       robertso/     rudolp/

hercules[13]% chmod 755 rbm2

*** the above command would use your username instead 
of "rbm2".

hercules[14]% cd

*** "cd" without any arguments always positions you back 
in your home directory, that is, your top directory level. 
The "pwd" command (print working directory) lists the 
directory in which you are currently positioned.

hercules[15]% pwd

/u/r/rbm2
hercules[16]% logout

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