Web Design and Technologies (4004-737)


group accounts (posted 5 January 2004)

I have created accounts for each group on our polaris server. The user ID is your group name, and the default password will be given out in class (I strongly encourage you to change the password as soon as possible).

The default web directory on polaris is public_html, rather than www. You’ll need to create the public_html directory in your home directory, and set the permissions (for it and anything you put in it) to allow reading (there’s no “ofw” script on polaris!).

Polaris now supports secure shell (ssh) connections, so I strongly encourage you to use ssh instead of telnet when connecting to the server (you should do this on grace, as well).

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Prof. Lawley,

I'm having a problem instantiating a weblog from polaris server. I didn't have any problem installing movabletypes, but when I try to create a weblog and rebuild it, it gives the following error:

An error occurred:


Writing to '/home/winter03/sashimi/public_html/blog/styles-site.css.new' failed: Opening local file '/home/winter03/sashimi/public_html/blog/styles-site.css.new' failed: Permission denied

Could you give some advice on how to fix the error?

Posted by: Fuyuko Takegawa on January 6, 2004 10:34 PM | Permalink to Comment

Unfortunately, I don't think polaris supports .suexec, which means that the MT software needs write permission (777) for your blog directories.

I'll check with Chad about .suexec, though.

Posted by: Liz Lawley on January 7, 2004 10:40 AM | Permalink to Comment
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