Using CSEL for Hosting Archives

For homeworks that require you to send me a link to an archive, all students who are CS majors can make use of the CSEL to host your files. Simply copy your archive (using scp) to the public_html directory in the root directory of your CSEL account. If you upload a file called "hw1.zip" to the "public_html" directory using a command like:

scp hw1.zip <username>@ elra-01.cs.colorado.edu:public_html

then that file will be available for the grader to download at:

http://csel.cs.colorado.edu/~<username>/hw1.zip

To get started with remote access to the csel, check out this page

<https://csel.cs.colorado.edu/categoryblog/31-general/50-csel-remote-access.html>

For non-CS majors (including CAETE students), you will need to locate a free web hosting option that allows you to upload files and then send me the relevant URL once your archive is available. A quick search this morning revealed this free web hosting site:

<http://www.free-space.net/>

and this directory of free web hosting sites:

<http://www.free-webhosts.com/>

Please be very careful when interacting with these websites: be sure your computer has been upgraded with all available relevant security patches, you make use of security software (if needed) and that you use a Web browser designed to detect malware, such as Firefox when accessing or uploading files to these sites.

If you have any questions, let me know.

© Kenneth M. Anderson, 2009.