Many HTML editors have the concept of publishing, or uploading, pages directly to the website using the web server. This process bypasses normal ftp and filesystem access. Usage below is for Netscape Communicator. The concepts presented are common across editors with this capability.

To use this capability, you need to create a New Blank Page. Edit the content until you are pleased. When you are ready to save the page, choose Publish... under the File menu. This will bring up a dialog asking for various information. Go ahead and fill out what you like. To actually get this to the website, you will need to fill in the bottom portion of the dialog. The location you are uploading to is http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/<your username>/<your location> where ever you want them to go. If your web username is different than your login username (for rainbow, chaos, silly, etc.), it is better that you use your login username for the URL. You will also need to fill in your web username and password where it asks for them.

You do not need an account on faculty.physics.tamu.edu or rainbow.physics.tamu.edu to use this method of web publishing. However, you do need to be a faculty member of the Physics Department.

Several things to keep in mind when using this. You CANNOT have CGI scripts in the same directory as files uploaded through this method. This is because the directory must be group writable for the program on the server to work. This method also will NOT upload CGI scripts. Other restrictions are no filenames may begin with a period ('.'), no directory may contain a period ('.') and certain other characters are illegal always ('&<>;' and whitespace).