Web page hosting on Uni-Freiburg domain

Assumptions:

You are currently enrolled in the University of Freiburg (I’m not) or is somehow affiliated to the university.

Interested in creating a simple online web page.

Understands very basic Linux commands and HTML code.

What?

Personal web pages are hosted in Uni-Freiburgs omnibus server: omnibus.uni-freiburg.de

By default your site will be hosted here with your User ID in the end: omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~gg76

Here gg76 used to be my User ID. User ID is the ID with which you login to this site: myaccount.uni-freiburg.de/uadmin/login

TL;DR? Go here: https://github.com/thatgeeman/public_html_tut

How?

Windows people do this first and continue to the next step.
Linux people can directly ssh to the omnibus server with:
```
ssh gg76@login.uni-freiburg.de
```
Files required to make the web-page are kept in a folder called public_html which is located in a sub-directory under our UserID. Navigate to that directory:
```
cd /home/omnibus/gg76/public_html
```

If no such directory:

mkdir /home/omnibus
mkdir /home/omnibus/gg76
mkdir /home/omnibus/gg76/public_html
cd /home/omnibus/gg76/public_html

Check if git is supported with the -v flag. Then do git clone and copy all files (and folders) to public_html:

git -v
git clone https://github.com/thatgeeman/public_html_tut
cd public_html_tut
cp * -r ../../public_html
cd ../../public_html

If there is no git support, and only ssh protocols work, read this to see how you can proceed.
Also read this to understand what each file in public_html means.
Modify the index.html file in public_html to suit your needs: modify name, website, info, CV, etc.
Upload files that you linked to, in the index.html file, into the files directory. See the misc section for how to do this.
That’s it, your website should be ready now.

Misc, but useful

In Step 9, I said upload your files: how do you do that anyway?

You can use the scp command to copy files from your computer (from shell) to the website directory with:

scp /path/to/file.pdf UserID@login.uni-freiburg.de:/home/omnibus/UserID/public_html

Skip step 4

Skip to this to use your PC/Laptop (windows or linux) to edit the files according to your requirement and later upload it to the university server. To do that, first download the website package I’ve prepared for you here. Extract its contents, and use any text editor to modify the index.html file. Add the CV and other docs you want to share in your website into the files directory. You can preview your website to see if everything works by simply opening the index.html file with an internet browser. Now you can scp the entire directory with the -r flag to the omnibus server, like this:

scp -r ~/path/to/public_html_tut/* UserID@login.uni-freiburg.de:/home/omnibus/UserID/public_html

Steps for Windows

Here are the steps for Windows users to connect to the omnibus server and upload files. If you are on Linux, skip this and continue to the next step.

Method 1: Easy

Do it the easy way by downloading a Linux subsystem for Windows from here. This supports natively all commands including (but not limited to) git, ssh, and scp. Now follow everything from Step 2.

Method 2: Intermediate

If you are on windows, install Cygwin and PuTTy to get scp, ssh, and other linux terminal like features.

With Cygwin, you can use most basic linux commands. For scp, ssh, and git, you have to follow this and this. After, go to Step 2.

If you want to use PuTTy, use these protocols to connect to the uni server with ssh and modify files within the terminal:
Server: login.uni-freiburg.de
User: UserID
Password:
Port: 22
Protocol: SFTP