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Each EECS account holder is given a website directory on the web server ('www') when their acount is created. This directory is physically located on 'www', but can also be accessed through each user's home directory through a symbolic link that we create in each user's home directory.

To publish a website to this space, simply create your html files and place them in the folder '~/public/html' (or ~/public_html for accounts on older machines) in your home directoy and then ensure that each file in that directory is publicly readable by running the command:

chmod -R a+rX ~/public/html

Once uploaded, your website can be accessed by going to 'http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~uniquename'.

Please note that you must have a default html file called 'index.html'. If you need assistance with learning HTML, please see this FAQ.

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