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I printed some directions on how to make my own web page and they told me to us unix. They also told me to first make a new directory called public then, change it to cd public, but I don't know how can you help me please? I would really appreciate it. Thank you,
Jamie

The directory is named "public_html". This is true if you would like to serve your site out of your personal, home directory (in the /home tree) with a URL like http://www.something.com/~yourname or http://my_ip/~yourname, where my_ip is the IP of your network interface to which the Web server listens.

For example, if your IP is 1.2.3.4, put an index.html file in /home/myname/public_html then you can access it at http://1.2.3.4/~myname if your server is set up properly.

But in its foremost you need to make sure your Web server installation is set up in this way (if this is Apache then by default it should be though you should check yourself)

if these instructions are for setting up your own webserver, and all you want is a simple webpage, maybe one of the free webspace providers are a better route for you to take. however is someone has webspace for you then cbkihong's instructions will help you to get set up. check with your sysadmin for specifics however, regarding your public_html directory name, and some other details.

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