Web Publishing on the ME Server

Faculty, Staff, and Students - Faculty may have personal web pages that include things like office hours, classes taught during the current semester, notes, homework, and a thousand-and-one other things. This page or pages should be in addition to the page the ME Department has provided that is linked to the Faculty Listing pages. Ideally, we will link to your personal web site directly from this page. We only ask that, in return, you include a link back to your ME Department page.

Staff may also wish to have personal pages linked to their departmental pages. As with the Faculty pages, we are happy to link to your site with the caveat that you provide a link back to the ME Department page.

Students may not store their personal pages on the ME Departmental Web Server. However, all UT students with an Individually Funded (IF) Account may create and store personal web pages on ACITS computers.

The Web administrator and the ME Department reserve the right to refuse to publish any material considered objectionable or not in keeping with the policies of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Cockrell School of Engineering, or the University of Texas at Austin.

Learning To Create Pages - There are lots of options for creating and publishing web pages here at the University of Texas at Austin. Our Web Publishing page provides information on policies, guidelines, server access, and even tutorials for web publishing. The Department, the Cockrell School of Engineering, and the University all provide services to meet your specific needs.

Get A Web Server Account - If you wish to publish information the first step is to get an account on the Mechanical Engineering Web Server: www.me.utexas.edu. Contact the ME Server Administrator to get started.

Create A www Directory - Once you have an account, you are automatically capable of publishing pages on the web server. You will need to use a Secure Shell Client to connect to the ME server. All you must do to publish pages is to create a directory called public_html in your home directory. If you are unfamiliar with UNIX, the easiest way to do this is to type the following 3 commands:
      cd
      mkdir public_html
      chmod 755 public_html