Discover Life | Education | Training Guides | Directory Structure

Overview

This page will help you to navigate within the directory structure of Discover Life.

Index

Home Directory

The home directory appears when you open a new shelltool. Thus, it is your home or starting point that you can return to at any time by simply typing cd.

• /home/web/dl
  • 4rs -- Images(?)
  • ao -- Shortcut to /pa/or/ao (Athens-Oconee, Georgia)
  • bees -- Shortcut to /nh/tx/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Apoidea/Apidae/Bombus/images (Index of Bombus images)
  • bin -- (?)
    • no_spaces -- (?)
  • butter -- Shortcut to nh/tx/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Pieridae/images (Index of Pieridae images)
  • co -- Conservation
  • css -- Cascade Stylesheet
  • ecol4110 -- Student Accounts
  • ed -- Education
    • acc -- Athens-Clarke County, Discover Life
      • ev -- Events
      • q -- Checklist of the Vascular Flora of Clarke County, Georgia
    • Eli -- Elizabeth's text and work files
    • n2 -- Empty Directory(?)
    • si -- Explore your school yard
      • GA -- Georgia School Counties
        • acc -- Athens-Clarke County School listings
    • tg -- Training Guides
      • Activities_for_Teachers -- Activity Guides for Teachers
      • Building_Web_Pages -- Guides for Building Web Pages
      • Dichotomous_Keys -- (?)
      • Diversity_Activities -- Lesson Plans for Catalpa Biodiversity Project
      • Field_Activities -- ACP Biology Project DL by Stella Guerrero
      • Techno_Activities_for_Students -- Technology Activities
      • Using_Digital_Camera -- Instructions for Using Digital Cameras
      • Web_and_Office_Support -- Instructions for Web and Office Activities
      • perl -- MIME
    • tt -- Teacher Training
      • tc -- (?)
  • get_involved.html -- HTML Page for Get Involved
  • gi -- Get Involved Registration
  • help.html -- HTML Page for Help
  • im -- Shortcut to /home/IM (Images)
  • in -- Shortcut to /home/db/in (?)
  • junk -- (?)
  • li -- Links
  • logs -- Logs
  • mail -- Saved Mail
  • map.html -- HTML Page for Global Map Browser
  • mbox -- Saved Mail
  • nd -- Nature Days
  • nh -- Natural History
    • cl -- Checklists
      • GSMNP -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park Checklist
      • ONF -- Oconee National Forest Checklist
      • US -- United States
        • GA -- Georgia
        • MA -- Massachusetts
        • NC -- North Carolina
    • id -- IDnature Guides
    • ps -- (?)
    • tx -- All Living Things (Flora and Fauna)
  • ns_imap -- (?)
  • nsmail -- Mail index
  • ov -- Overview
  • pa -- Who We Are
    • co -- Correspondence
    • en -- Endorsements
    • ev -- Events
    • gp -- Grant Proposals for DLIA
    • or -- Organizations
    • pe -- Personnel Files
      • PERSONNEL -- Personnel files
        • OLD -- back up files and Added Personnel Files
        • OTHER -- Miscellaneous files
        • PERSONNEL -- Personnel Database
        • tmp -- Temporary Storage of New Personnel Files
    • ph -- Photography
    • Proposal.html -- a Proposal to Involve Teachers and Students
  • pr -- Public Relations and Media
  • pu -- Publications
  • te -- ATBI Taxonomy Teams
  • vo -- Volunteers
• patch -- Patch
• photos -- Shortcut to /var/tmp/photos/bees/100NC_D1
• sc -- Research (Science)
  • CI -- Shortcut to /co (Conservation)
  • co -- Shortcut to /pa/co (Correspondence)
  • fo -- Funding Opportunities
  • lafontaine -- (?)
  • ui -- Labels, Unique Identifiers and Barcodes
• search.html -- HTML Page for Search
• te -- Templates
• top.html -- HTML Page for (?)
• who --Associated Personnel

Index

Top Directories

The top directories are located under dl. They contain most of the information needed to work on Discover Life.

/home/web/dl/ed This directory is the area where most of our education directories are located. /home/web/dl/ed/tg This directory holds the training guides used on www.discoverlife.org. /home/web/dl/nh This directory is the area where the directories pertaining to natural history are kept. /home/web/dl/nh/id This directory holds the identification guides for all of our taxa. /home/web/dl/nh/tx This directory holds all directories for the taxa. /home/web/dl/im This directory holds images and a database for UGCA. /home/web/dl/im/JP800... These are directories containing scanned images. /home/web/dl/im/UGCA This database contains information about all photographed specimens that have a UGCA database number associated with them.

Index

Sub-Directories

These sub-directories are within each major directory.

/images This directory holds temporary images from that have been imported from the digital camera or any other types of images applicable to that directory. /OTHER This directory hold extraneous files that may be needed to build pages or work on files within the main directory. /OLD This directory holds the backups of vi files or copies of other files that need to be saved.

Each account on the Web server has a home directory (or folder). When you login, you will be in your home directory. Within your UNIX account you should use the following:

Directories and Files

• public_html
  Within your home directory you need a sub-directory called public_html. It will contain your Web pages.

• index.html
  Within public_html you should make a file called index.html. This will be your home page that will be displayed when someone views www.discoverlife.org/~youraccount.

• images
  You need to have a sub-directory named images in your public_html directory that contains all the images referenced in index.html and other Web pages contained in public_html.

• Genus and species sub-directories
  If you're building pages on the natural history of species, these should be kept in their appropriate sub-directories.

  For example, if you were to build pages on Quercus alba and Quercus nigra, the white and water oaks, respectively, you should have a sub-directory within your public_html directory called Quercus.
  Within this Quercus sub-directory, you should have two sub-directories, alba and nigra.
  Within each of the three sub-directories, Quercus, alba, and nigra, you should have an index.html page and an images sub-directory.
  The index.html page within the Quercus sub-directory should present information on Quercus.

  This structure, displayed graphically, would look like this:

  
  public_html/
             Quercus/
                    images/
                    alba/
                        images/
                    nigra/
                         images/
  

  Warning:
  You will have several files called index.html. Be careful not to mix them up and overwrite one with the other.

  Solution:

  1. Call these files different names on your local PC, Quercus.html, alba.html, and nigra.html.
  2. Transfer these files to www.discoverlife.org.
  3. Rename them index.html only after you are sure they are in the approriate sub-directory.

  Discover Life | Education | Training Guides | Directory Structure

  Last updated: 11 October 2002