How to set up a dynamic website on Minds
In: Help, in Development on Minds.
This page describes how to set up a dynamic website on Minds.
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Minds supports dynamic websites using perl,php and possibly python. Database driven sites can be created,
you will just need to ask an admin to create a mysql database for you.
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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.
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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
- user@minds ~ > cd public_html
- For a dynamic website, you will need to create an index.php or index.cgi or index.py. This is the page that our webserver looks for when someone browses to your website.
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Your website will be accessible at http://minds.may.ie/~yourusername.