Copying files to or from the ME-REU website
We support using SFTP to transfer files to and from your computers at home. For Windows, we recommend winscp, for Mac OSX there is fugu, or if you are using Linux, there is gftp. (Or you can use Nautilus's "Connect to Server" feature.)
Using your sftp client on your home computer, type me-reu.secs.oakland.edu as the host you would like to connect to, choose SFTP (port 22) as your protocol, and choose your SECS username and password as your login credentials.
Now that you're logged in, you will be in your home directory, which looks like this:
In this directory you will have a folder called public_html. This is where you will put files for your personal website. Everything you put in this folder will be on your personal site, so for example if you put index.html in your public_html folder it will show up on the web as http://www.secs.oakland.edu/~yourusersname
If you happen to be logged into a lab machine here on campus, you can find your public_html folder in your H: drive. You can just drag and drop your webpage files in that folder and your changes will happen to your website. Remember that these pages are served in real time, so we recommend making changes and saving to another folder, then copying them over all at once into your public_html when you're done.
After you've made your personal site, find the me-reu web directory /srv/www/edu.oakland.secs.me-reu, this is where the ME-REU website is maintained. This is the site you will edit when you want to add your project to the website.
DO NOT delete directories that start with periods (like .ssh), they are essential for login into Linux systems. We recommend that you turn off "Show Hidden Files" in the WinSCP preferences (Or hit CTRL-ALT-H).
Check out the Personal Web Pages page for more information on setting up a personal web page on the SECS servers.
