Creating Folders on Server Based Web Sites
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When you create a folder in your web site area, and place web pages in the folder, the name of the folder becomes part of the web page address. For instance, say your address is http://students.washington.edu/NetID (This is, in fact, your UW web site address if you replace the "NetID" with your actual NetID). On your web site you have placed a web page called webpage.htm (most web pages end with the extender htm or html).
The address of the web page would be http://students.washington.edu/NetID/webpage.htm. Note the forward slash and the actual filename of the web page that follows. The picture of this is below:
Now, imagine you create a folder inside your web site area called template. Also imagine that you place the web page called webpage.htm inside the folder template. The picture would now be:
The address for the page now becomes http://students.washington.edu/NetID/template/webpage.htm. The folder template is now part of the address. The forward slash after template indicates that the file is in that folder. It is possible to have folders within folders within folders and so on. It results in more folder names and forward slashes. When you see a web address with a string of words separated by forward slashes, it just indicates the folders the file is in.
What we want to do for your server based assignments is create two different web sites, each in its own folder on your site. So, you need to create two folders and get the web pages for each site into the correct folder. The picture of what we are trying to create is below:
