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One possible way to have a personal homepage at the Department of Mathematics with a corporate design is described below. Configuration Open a terminal (for MacOS: Menu > Finder > Go > Utilities > Terminal) on a computer of D-MATH or on your private computer connected with VPN and login for instance on ion-4 i.e.: $ ssh ion-4 # or $ ssh your-eth-username@ion-4 Afterwards execute the following command: $ create-personal-homepage Now you should have the following files in your www-folder: ...

Read this blog for an alternative solution to create a personal homepage with corporate design. If you instead want a personal homepage with “full control”, read below. General information The URL (address) of your homepage is/will be the following: https://people.math.ethz.ch/~username The main file that you need has to be called index.html. You will probably have some more files like images, CSS-files, PDF-files, etc. You have to put all these files in your www-folder on the server. ...

Suppose you want to protect the sub-page “secure” of your homepage with a password; that is, you want the visitors to be asked for a username and a password when accessing a webpage: https://people.math.ethz.ch/~USERNAME/secure/ To do that you first have to create the directory “secure” with the correct permissions: mkdir ~/www/secure chmod 755 ~/www/secure Then you have to create a kind of configuration file in that directory, named .htaccess with the following content (you can use emacs, xemacs, vi, … as editor) ...