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How-to create a Personal Web Space

Student Staff Faculty

The University of San Diego offers personal web space for all current students, staff and faculty on home.sandiego.edu.  Once activated, you will have a site at http://home.sandiego.edu/~(your MySanDiego username).  You can follow these steps to activate your space and upload a file:

  1. In your web browser, go to http://home.sandiego.edu.  You will see this screen: 
  2. Click on “Enable web site”
  3. Enter your MySanDiego username and password
  4. Your site is now enabled.  Go to http://home.sandiego.edu/files/ and log in with your MySanDiego username and password.
  5. Click on the Public_HTML folder to access your home directory.  It will look something like this:
  6. You can use the web based interface to upload files, or ftp them using these settings: Secure FTP - host: usdhome.sandiego.edu on port 42670