Why do I have to set permissions on my files and folders stored on public_html?
The following applies only if deepblue is used as the student web server. As of September 2007 asimov is the student web server and it runs Windows not Linux. If you are working in the CST labs and using TextPad to create new HTML files and saving them to your public_html folder, you will need to switch “on” the read permission to “other” to make those files accessible to the web server. That process can be easily done using SSH. If you are working in the CST labs and using TextPad to create new HTML files and saving them anywhere BUT public_html, you can use SSH file transfer to copy the files to your deepblue public_html folder and not have to set the read permission. The SSH file transfer will do that for you. Same thing if you are working at home – use SSH to transfer the files to public_html.
