The information on this page is deprecated.

Your course web pages should go to University's Moodle system

• https://www.uni-saarland.de/projekt/elearning/moodle.html

Please contact Mark Summkeller. You may want to contact e-learning@lst for help.

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OLD / Deprecated

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Websites

Your website is located on the coli-webserver: httpd. Before you can start changing your pages you have to login to the server via ssh:

 $ ssh httpd.coli.uni-saarland.de

For ease of use users may want to use a GUI file transfer client like "Filezilla" (all platforms), "WinSCP" (Windows), or "Cyberduck" (MacOS).

Locations

Please note that projects, courses and private web sites should be placed in appropriate directories as follows:

• Projects: /web/www.coli.uni-saarland.de/html/projects/

• Courses: /web/www.coli.uni-saarland.de/html/courses/

• Personal web pages: $HOME/public_html/

Directories for courses and project web pages can be requested from Systems Group via email to help@coli. Please do not put any courses or project pages in your private home page.

Pagetree System

You may want to use the pagetree system that is used for the global Coli website. Pagetree gives you a comfortable way to edit the contents of your website. This system will allow you to specify the structure of your website in a configuration file, and then compute a navbar for you automatically.

The pagetree system consists of three parts:

• The file "pagetree.xml", which defines the structure of your site.
• HTML files in a subdirectory "contents", one for each page of your site, which contain the actual contents of your site.
• The file "page.php", which reads pagetree, computes the navbar, and displays the content for the selected page. Usually you never edit page.php.

Setting up your web site

Method A (Easy: Copy&Paste&Replace)

• Look for some other course/web page that has the pagetree system in place and copy the files page.php, pagetree.xml and the contents directory.

• Edit the files according to your needs.

Method B (Manually, more detailled explanation)

• Copy or link the file /web/www.coli.uni-saarland.de/html/page.php on httpd into the directory of your website
• Create a file "pagetree.xml" in that directory. The file must have a pagetree element that contains a section with an entry. It doesn't need a frontpage element.
• Create a subdirectory "contents" to place different html pages (i.e. contact.html)
• Make sure that all files and directories are readable by the webserver

• Now you can access the page with a URL like "http://..../page.php?id=contact"

pagetree.xml

The pagetree.xml should have the following construct:

 <?xml version="1.0"?>                                                                            
 <pagetree docroot="/HOMEPAGE_DIRECTORY/" title="HOMEPAGE TITLE">
 <section title="SECTION TITLE">
     <entry id="FILENAME" title="ENTRY TITLE" />
                 .
                 .
                 .
  </section>
  <section title="">
         .
         .
         .
  
 </pagetree>

FILENAME is the name of the html file in contents without .html, i.e. "contact".

The entries and sections of a pagetree.xml file can have additional attributes that are read as flags (i.e. you write <entry id=etc. etc. flag="true" />). Some useful flags are:

• local: This page is only visible from Coli, DFKI, or LSV
• hidden: This page exists, and can be accessed with page.php?id=..., but won't show up in the navbar.
• url: You can use this attributes to link an entry to any other page which is not placed in the "contents' directory.

The top-level "pagetree" element can also have attributes:

• title: This is the page title for the entire site under pagetree control
• docroot: Each link in the navbar will be prefixed by this string. That is, docroot can be the absolute or relative URL (not pathname on the web server!) for your pagetree site.

==== Example === =

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <pagetree docroot="/" title="Computational Linguistics and Phonetics">
  <section title="General">
    <entry id="whatis" title="What is...?"/>
    <entry id="coordinates" title="Coordinates"/>
  </section>
  <section title="Research">
    <entry id="projects" title="Research Projects"/>
    <entry id="publications" url="/publications.php" title="Publications"/>
    <entry id="dissertations" url="<nowiki>http://www.dfki.de/lt/diss.php</nowiki>" title="Dissertation Series"/>
    <entry id="foo" hidden="true"/>
  </section>
 </pagetree>