Using ~ URLs at MIT

We have just added a new feature to our web server which allows for a short URL form. URLs that look like

http://www.mit.edu/~lockername/

allow you to access the www subdirectory of the locker lockername. This will work with activity lockers, and home directories.

For your homepage

So, if you create a homepage called index.html in the www directory in your home directory, you can access your home page by accessing the URL:

http://www.mit.edu/~username/

where username is your username.

More detailed instructions on creating a home page is available at the How to put your home page on the web page.

Different from web.mit.edu

This is similar, but different from the system on web.mit.edu which allows URLs of the form:

http://web.mit.edu/lockername/

which allows you to access the top level of the lockername locker. In order to access the www subdirectory, you need to do http://web.mit.edu/lockername/www.