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    Creating a website on Openlab

Building out a webpage on the ics domain is super cool!
Examples

Here are two sites that I built on it:

Personal Site: www.ics.uci.edu/~ccarnaro/
ICS 33 GradeViewer: www.ics.uci.edu/~ccarnaro/ics33gradeviewer.html

Prerequisites


Must be an ICS student
Know your ICS password

If you don't have one, active your ICS Account.
If you forgot, reset your ICS Password.


Steps

Step 1: Connect to OpenLab

If you have SSH into openlab before, you know what you’re doing and can move onto Step 2 👍
If you haven’t set up ssh keys with OpenLab before, you will need to do the following:

Connect to the UCI VPN
Open up your terminal
Type ssh ucinetid@openlab.ics.uci.edu (swap out “ucinetid” for yours)

*** It will ask for your password. This is your ICS Password, not your regular UCI password.

Here's a complete guide on How to Connect to UCI ICS Openlab.
If your prompt looks something like this, you’re in!
ccarnaro@circinus-30 22:42:38 ~ 
$ 

Step 2: Create Web Page

In this step, you will get your /public_html folder setup along with a simple webpage!

Run the following command in your terminal: /pkg/ics/bin/make_my_web
Follow the prompts and answer the program’s questions. It will use this information to construct a simple personal site, like mine.
At the end it should give you the url for your ICS webpage! Go check it out

Step 3: Create a Custom Page

Now that you’re set up, let’s go ahead and make a new custom page.

Go into the /public_html directory: cd public_html/
Use either nano or vim to create a new file for your page: nano test.html <- You can name it whatever you want!
Create a simple html file <html>Hello World</html>
Save the file

Once you have added the new file, we need to make it viewable to the public.

Run the following command in the terminal: chmod 644 test.html
Note: If you have any directories, like a js folder, you can make it public by running: chmod 755 folderName

Finally, view your new page and verify that “Hello World” shows up!

The url should be something like this: www.ics.uci.edu/~ccarnaro/test.html
Conclusion

Congratulations, you’ve set up a webpage on Openlab 🎉 🎉