Are you having trouble accessing your home page, or are some of the pictures missing? This is a list of some common errors and possible solutions:

• Check the spelling of your URLs
• "Open dir" error
  • Check that your home directory is x ("searchable") by others. You can do this by typing:
    chmod o+x $HOME.
  • Check that your WWW directory is x ("searchable") by others. You can do this by typing:
    chmod o+x $HOME/WWW.
  • Check that your homepage is in WWW and not www. Case matters in UNIX!
• "Can't be read or doesn't exist" error
  • Make sure that your home page is in your WWW directory
  • Make sure your home page is in the file Welcome.html, not welcome.html
  • Check that your Welcome.html file is r ("readable") by others. You can do this by typing:
    chmod o+x $HOME/WWW/Welcome.html.
• Three dots appear where your image should be
  • Make sure that your image files are in your WWW directory, or a subdirectory of WWW.
  • Make sure that all of the subdirectories in your WWW directory are x ("searchable") by others.
  • Make sure the path to your image is specified correctly
  • Make sure your image file is r for others
• A question mark appears where your image should be
  • Make sure your image file is r for others

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