Webhosting¶
You can host your own personal webpage at Blinkenshell. To do this, put
any files you want to be accessible via HTTP in the directory
public_html in your home directory. The URL to your webpage will be
https://username.u.blinkenshell.org/ (old accounts have no HTTPS and
are available at http://username.blinkenshell.org instead, ask
independence if you want to migrate to the new hostname and HTTPS)
If you have a file named index.html in your public_html directory
that file will be used as the index page when someone browses to your
site without requesting a specific file (i.e.
https://username.u.blinkenshell.org/). If you do not have an index
file a directory listing of all the files in your public_html will
be shown instead.
You can use Apache .htaccess-files to customize the behaviour of
your webpage. Apache documentation on
htaccess.
Logs from apache are written to ~/logs/access.log (normal traffic)
and ~/logs/error.log (errors). These files should not be removed.
CGI¶
CGI and PHP is only available on Supporter accounts.
You can use PHP and CGI) scripts to create dynamic webpages. CGI and PHP scripts are executed with mod_fcgi and suexec, which will make all scripts execute with your user id instead of the Apache user.
PHP and Python are installed. You can install your own frameworks such as Django if you like, but they are not installed system-wide.
MySQL¶
For information on how to use MySQL, see: MySQL.