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The /users/ pages are generated automatically by a program which is run once a day. This program checks for every user who has a directory called public_html in their home directory. This directory must be world readable and executable. Links are added to the /users/ files for every user who meets the above criteria.
Two files in the user's public_html directory allow slight customization of the entry in the /users/ files. These are described below.
If you have a file public_html/.message, the first line
(and only the first line) in it will be appended to your
entry in the /users/ files. This may contain a short description
of what your home page contains.
Remember that if you put any relative links in this file, they will be taken relative to the /users/ directory, not relative to your home page or the root directory. Thus you need to use a link of the form:
<a href="/~username/file.html">rather then:
<a href="file.html">The second form will be expanded to be:
<a href="http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/users/file.html">
If you wish to use any data characters which are used for markup in html
(such as '<' or '>'), you must use the corresponding
entity names. For example, use '<' for
'<' and '>' for '>'.
There are some special tags which will be stripped out before
your public_html/.message file is added to the
/users/ files. These include <blink>,
<p>, the header tags (ie
<h1> etc) and <font>.
The idea of the public_html/.message file is to
allow a short description of what is contained on your home
page. It is not provided for people to express their
creativity or try and out do each other in having the most
appealing entry - that's what your home page is for. Animated
gifs should not be included, and javascript and java applets
are not allowed.
Note: Do not abuse this feature or it will be removed.
Large inline images (ie. images larger than 16x16 pixels) should
be avoided - don't rely upon setting the width and
height options using Netscape's extensions to the
img tag as most browsers do not recognize them.
All text should be in good taste. Messages longer than one line
(as rendered on standard browsers) should be avoided.
Many users who have their main home page on another server and simply have a link from the page on yoyo's server, may wish to take advantage of this feature. It allows you to specify the url which you wish to appear linking to your home page.
Create the file public_html/.redirect and put the url you wish to appear on the first line. This url will then be used for the link to your home page.
This feature will also be useful if you don't wish to call your
home page public_html/index.html, but maybe your username,
for example if your username is "me", public_html/me.html.
Then you would put the following in the file
public_html/.redirect:
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~me/me.html
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