How to set up a website on Minds

This page describes how to set up a website on Minds.

Your website lives in your public_html directory, under your home directory, so all files comprising your website should be placed in here.
You can create the files on your own computer, using your own editors and development tools, and then upload them to minds via secure ftp, find out more about this here.
Or, if you are editing your website while logged in to the minds system via ssh ( for example using putty or openssh ), you would just change to the public_html directory, like so:

user@minds ~ > cd public_html

Now you are in the right directory, and you can just use a text editor to edit the files. The easiest editor to use is nano, and you run it like this:
nano index.html
For a basic website, you will need to create an index.html. This is the page that our webserver looks for when someone browses to your website. For more advanced websites, with dynamically generated content, you might be using an index like index.cgi, index.php, index.py or index.jsp, read more about that here .
Your website will be accessible at http://minds.may.ie/~yourusername.