August 2002 - Important Web Hyplan Changes

We have changed the way the CS Department web-based Hyplans (aka. homepages) are handled on the CS web server. Previously, there were two different URLs you could use to access your hyplan:


	http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/username.html
and
	http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~username/

Unfortunately, this has generated a lot of confusion since links in your hyplan may have worked when accessed using one URL but not the other. As a result, we are standardizing on the single /~username/ url. Any accesses to your hyplan using the old /hyplan/username.html path will be automatically rewritten by the web server to the newer /~username/ path. The upside of this is that the old path with still work. However, it is possible that links within your hyplan that worked previously will now be broken. In order to eleminiate any such problems, you should take the following steps:

Verify that you have an index.html file in your ~/.hyplan directory. If you don't but instead have a .hyplan.html file in your home directory you will need to move your current .hyplan.html file to ~/.hyplan/index.html and re-run makehyplan.
Verify that your hyplan works using the /~username/ path from any web browser.
Run the checkhyplan script on any of the department Suns. This script just does some basic checks of your hyplan setup and then uses the linklint program to report on any broken links in your hyplan. You will need to find and fix any errors reported by checkhyplan.

Once checkhyplan completes with no errors, you should be all set. You can rerun checkhyplan at any time to recheck your hyplan for broken links.

If you have old relative links in your index.html of the form:

HREF="janedoe/foo.html"

these will need to be changed to

HREF="/~janedoe/foo.html"

or, since the foo.html and index.html files are in the same .hyplan directory, just

HREF="foo.html"

will work fine.

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