| 3 | | this machine is one of the Shell Servers |
| | 3 | neptune is the web server for http://www.astro.columbia.edu/, serving both the main web site, and the userdirs. |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | == UserDirs == |
| | 6 | If you have CAL account `foo`, you can control your userdir by putting your data in a folder named `~/www`. This will be visible to the public as http://www.astro.columbia.edu/~foo |
| | 7 | |
| | 8 | Note that data within your userdir will only be visible to the outside world if it is world-readable (and the directory containing it is world-executable). |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | |
| | 11 | == History == |
| | 12 | neptune started life as a shell server, but is no longer used in that capacity. |
