Here's how it works:

  • Every student has a "home" directory on the Earlham file server called "PAX"

  • This 'home' directory or folder is mapped to a drive letter H:

  • Within the home directory (H:) is a folder called www where your web site pages reside.
    This is where the "web server" looks when is displays a web page in Internet Explorer.

  • "H:\www" is mapped to "~your username" by the web server.
    So "H:\www" for Kristin Keyes (username, 'keyeskr') becomes "http://www.earlham.edu/~keyeskr"

  • a file saved as 'index.htm' is the 'home' page for the folder it's located in.
    So the 'h:\www\index.htm' for Kristin Keyes (username, 'keyeskr') is displayed by "http://www.earlham.edu/~keyeskr"

  • Folders within "h:\www" are also part of the picture.
    But the back-slash "\" in the path gets switched to a forward-slash "/"
    So "h:\www\cricket" for Kristin becomes "http://www.earlham.edu/~keyeskr/cricket"

  • and the page "cricket_beginners.htm" in this folder "h:\www\cricket\cricket_beginners.htm" becomes "http://www.earlham.edu/~keyeskr/cricket/cricket_beginners.htm"

Summary
H:\www \index.htm
http://www.earlham.edu/~keyeskr  
   
H:\www \page.htm
http://www.earlham.edu/~keyeskr /page.htm
   
H:\www \cricket\cricket_beginners.htm
http://www.earlham.edu/~keyeskr /cricket/cricket_beginners.htm
   
H:\www \cricket\index.htm
http://www.earlham.edu/~keyeskr /cricket