WAM Unix World Wide Web

Web Browsers

The WAM system has three Web browsers available for use.

lynx

Lynx is a terminal based program, and is available on all WAM unix machines. It is the only Web browser available for the remote access centers.

xmosaic

NCSA's Mosaic is one of the most popular Web broswers. It can be used on the NeXTstations if you first launch co-Xist.app (Xwindows). This Xwindows version of Mosaic is similar to the Mosaic available on Macintoshes and PS/2s.

OmniWeb

OmniWeb is native NeXTSTEP Web browser. It is still under development, which means you may occasionally run into problems. Despite this drawback it is the most popular Web browser among NeXT users.

User Home Pages

WAM user can publish their own Web home page, and other pages. Writing your own Web pages is not difficult, but you will need to become familiar with something called HyperText Markup Language and Uniform Resource Locators, or HTML and URLs for short. There are several good tutorials available to get you started:

HTML documents should be installed in your account's pub directory. The WAM Web server will look there for all URLs specifying your account.

These URLs will map to these files

        http://www.wam.umd.edu/~acct/file.html
                /afs/wam.umd.edu/usrN/acct/pub/file.html

        http://www.wam.umd.edu/~acct/Interests.html
                /afs/wam.umd.edu/usrN/acct/pub/Interests.html

        http://www.wam.umd.edu/~acct/
                /afs/wam.umd.edu/usrN/acct/pub/Welcome.html

The '~' must be specified in the URL.

The last example is a special case. If a filename is not specified at the end of a URL, the file Welcome.html will be used. This if what is typically refered to as a Home Page.