Home page location in the file system

The home page on users.jyu.fi appears on the university's Windows machine as a W-drive when the page is activated.

The home pages are visible from the IT services' shared computers (jalava, halava) via the /wwwhome directory. The path to the home pages can be created by typing /wwwhome as the first part of the path in the home directory and adding /public_html as the last part of the path. For example, the home directory for user mameikal is /nashome1/mameikal, so his home pages are in /wwwhome/nashome1/mameikal/public_html

You can also check your home directory by logging in to Oma - Personal information management, and there at the bottom of the Username and Email page, under Directories, under "Home Directory Location on Unix Shared Machines".

Access to the home directory from partitioned computers can be made easier by providing a link to the home directory. An example where a link is made to the www mameikal user's home directory (the web pages are stored as a file named index.html).

 [mameikal@jalava ~]$ pwd
 /nashome1/mameikal
 [mameikal@jalava ~]$ ln -s /wwwhome/nashome1/mameikal/public_html
 [mameikal@jalava ~]$ ls www
 index.html

After this you can access home page via browser using home page link.

Different ways of trasferring websites

There are three different ways to transfer your website from your computer to users.jyu.fi:

• From a computer on the university network directly via the W disk in the resource manager (Windows Explorer).
• From a home computer via a VPN connection. First, connect to the VPN and then connect to the W disk.
• From a home computer via SSH connection. Connect to the university server via SSH program (e.g. WinSCP).
• Transfer on a Macintosh platform with the transfer option SSH/VPN transfer.

Transferring pages directly from a computer on the university network

On machines on the university network (Jyunet), i.e. virtually all machines on the university premises, pages can simply be copied directly from your own machine to the home page folder. The home folder will appear in the Resource Manager (Windows Explorer) or My Computer icon as a W disk and immediately after copying the files, the pages will be visible to the world at users.jyu.fi/~username

Transferring pages from your home computer via a VPN connection

To transfer pages, for example from home to a web server, you must first connect to the university network via VPN and then activate the W disk. Here are the step-by-step procedures and links to more detailed instructions.

• Connect to the university network via VPN on Windows or Mac
• Mount a network disk (W disk) Accessing network disks from home with Windows or on a Mac

Transfer pages from your home computer via SSH (using WinSCP)

For SSH connection users, there is a Transferring files using WinSCP It is essential to note that after connecting, files must be placed in an html folder in order to be visible to the world.