University Webspace Setup (M0G)
Get your Charlotte webspace live and mirroring your GitHub repo. No HTML writing here — just requesting the space, connecting with SFTP, and putting files where they belong. When it's done, your name is on the web at webpages.charlotte.edu/yourninernetid/ — that's what gets checked.
Request the Space
- Request your personal webpage via the UNC Charlotte knowledge base, wait ~10 minutes, then load https://webpages.charlotte.edu/<your ninernet id> — you should see a generic placeholder page with the school logo.
- Working off-campus? You need the school VPN installed and connected before SFTP will work.
Connect & Arrange Files
- Install an SFTP client (FileZilla, Fetch, or WinSCP): hostname webpages.uncc.edu, port 22, your school login. Show date/time columns; go full screen and learn cmd/ctrl-tab.
- Local side: navigate to your repo folder (…/ITIS3135Work/yourgithubid.github.io/). Server side: work only inside public_html.
- Rename the server's existing index.html to original_index.html and move it down into your local repo folder, next to (not inside) itis3135/ — leaving you two index files locally if done right.
- In your local root index.html add: <a href="itis3135/">Click to go to my ITIS3135 Site</a> — test with Live Server.
- Copy everything from the repo to public_html: index, original_index, and the whole itis3135 folder. Watch date/time/size so you don't nest a folder inside itself or overwrite the wrong index.
- Commit/push the GitHub side too — the two sites should match.
Test
- http://webpages.charlotte.edu/yourninernetid/ shows your first page (with your name) and the course link.
- The link loads your itis3135 index page.
- Fails? Re-read the steps, check file times on the server, ask the duck, then the class forum.
Submitting
- A screenshot (gif/jpg/png) of your SFTP client with yourgithubid.github.io/itis3135/ on the left and public_html/itis3135/ on the right, contents visible.
- The clickable URL for your Charlotte itis3135 folder.
- Your github.com and github.io URLs, as before.
- Anything you'd like to note.
- Then review two peers with constructive feedback — something they should improve or fix.
What gets checked: your webpages.charlotte.edu site loads, and your name appears somewhere on the page.