All CS faculty, staff, and majors are automatically given an account on the department's Linux network, collectively known as CSX. Students enrolled in a CS course are also automatically given an account. The iMacs in MSCS 222 also use the same account information for access. Accounts belonging to students (or former students) who are not Computer Science majors, and who are no longer enrolled in a CS course, will be archived and removed. See also the instructions on accessing our systems.
All personal web pages reside under a user's home directory underneath the directory public_html. The directory public_html and the path to it must be world executable (see 'man chmod', but generally 'chmod o=rX' on any files and directories should do the trick). The default file for a directory should be named index.html or index.php. All files you wish to serve must be world readable. Any removal of world executable access from directories (including your home directory itself) or world readable access from files will cause web serving to stop working for some or all of your files.
Please keep in mind that while a certain amount of non-academic content is acceptable, files on the university's servers reflect on the university and anything in violation of OSU policy or state or federal law, or of questionable taste, is likely to be taken down.
http://cs.okstate.edu/~userid (note the tilde), substituting your account's userid.
cgi-bin programs represent a known security risk, so the department doesn't allow them. We do support PHP (currently 7.3) and are willing to discuss other web scripting languages within reason and capability. Our web server is Apache 2.4.
OSU-Stillwater and OSU-Tulsa are participants in the Eduroam global WiFi service, which gives students and employees secure and fast internet connectivity at any participating Eduroam campus.