Wharton Computing Student Support

Club Account Information

This document tells you how to access, manage and update your Wharton Club website. It contains the following sections :

Obtaining Webspace or Email For Your Club
Connecting to your Club Webspace from Home
Connecting from a Wharton Workstation
Updating your Webmaster's List (for Club owners only)
Updating your Club Website
Students Server Capabilities
Logging Out

Obtaining Webspace or Email Account For Your Club

To obtain web space or an email account for your club, you must come to the Wharton Computer Student Support office located in F35 JMHH in person to fill out a club account form. Once the form has been completed, you can pick up your club account information the next business day after 1:00pm.

Accessing Your Club's Email Account

If your club has an email account, click here for information on how to access it.

Connecting and Logging on from Home to your club webspace

If you're working from home, you'll need to obtain SSH Secure Shell. SSH Secure Shell is a program that allows you to connect to the Wharton server Students that hosts your Club website. Please see the following webpage for information on how to obtain a copy of SSH Secure Shell and how to use it from home:

• Connecting and Logging into Secure Shell from home

Connecting and Logging on from a Wharton workstation

Please see the following webpage for instructions on how to use SSH Secure Shell from a Wharton workstation:

• Connecting and Logging into Secure Shell From a Wharton Workstation

Updating your Webmaster's List (for Club owners only)

Once you have successfully logged on to students.wharton.upenn.edu, you will see a system prompt (indicated by students(~)%). Please see below for instructions on updating the Webmasters list.

• At the system prompt, type the following: pico ~/www-club/.webmasters where club is the WWW name for your club. (For example, the Wharton Technology Group’s WWW address is http://clubs.wharton.upenn.edu/wtg so ‘wtg’ (always lower case) is the WWW name for the Wharton Technology group. Hence, the club owner would type: pico ~/www-wtg/.webmasters).
• The Pico text editor will appear with a list of the present webmasters, or users allowed to update the club web pages.
• You may add new webmasters or delete existing webmasters simply by adding or removing usernames from this file.
  Note: It is important that only one user name is specified per line in the file.
• To add a new username to the list, use the down arrow key on your keyboard to go to the last line in the file and press . Type the Wharton username of the person you would like to add. To add more than one, continue as before, adding one username per line.
• Once you are finished adding or removing users from the list, press CTRL-O (press the O key while holding down the Control key).
• Press Enter at the proceeding prompt in order to write your changes back to the file.
• Finally press CTRL-X to exit Pico.

Note: Always remember to logout after every session.

Updating your Club Website

Once you login to the Students server, modify your club web documents by doing the following:

• Follow the www-club (where club is the WWW name for your club) link in your home directory.
• Open the public_html folder found inside.
  This is the folder where all club web documents are placed so that they can be accessible via: http://clubs.wharton.upenn.edu/club.
• Your updated documents will get automatically published to the website once you modify and save them back on the Students server in their appropriate folder.

Students Web Server Capabilities

The Students web server allows basic web capabilites for it's pages. There are a few processes that are allowed on the server. These include:

• Forms: There is a CGI form on the Students server that will allow you to obtain information from your webpage visitors. For information on CGI form processing, see:
  CGI Form Processing.
• Server Side Executions (SSI): The Students server allows for most server side executions. However, it does not allow executing commands or < exec > tags. If you decide to use SSI, please note that the file you create must end in .shtml for it to be recognized by the server.
  For a tutorial on how to use SSI, please see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html

Please keep in mind that the Students web server is a shared resource. For that reason, the web capabilities are limited. The two processes listed above are allowed on the server, however most other processes are not supported. Some of the processes that are not supported include ASP, PHP and SQL. If you find that you do need these resources for your club, you will need to find another web server host.

Logging Out

Please see below for details on how to logout and complete a session on the UNIX server.

• Log out of your telnet session by typing logout at the system prompt (indicated by students(~)%).
• Exit SSH Secure Shell by choosing Exit from the File menu.

Note : If you're working at a Wharton workstation and are finished, don't forget to log out of the workstation before you leave.