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How do I change my WolfWare home page link to another URL, e.g., common, another section, off-site etc.

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Solution Summary:

Set the home page link to another URL via the Edit WWW Boilerplate admin tool.

Full Solution:

Problem: How do I change my WolfWare Home Page link on the course boilerplate page at http://courses.ncsu.edu/ to point to another URL? Solution: Go to http://courses.ncsu.edu/ and select the WolfWare Toolbox link. Select your section and then Edit WWW Boilerplate. The default is set to "Link to my www area." That is, if you have an index.html or index.htm file in /afs/eos/courses/xxx/xxxyyy/lec/zzz/www/ (e.g., /afs/eos/courses/csc/csc200/lec/001/www/) that file shows up as your Home Page link at http://courses.ncsu.edu/. The URL is http://courses.ncsu.edu/xxxyyy/lec/zzz/, e.g., http://courses.ncsu.edu/csc200/lec/001/. If you have placed an index.html or index.html file in the course "common "area to serve as the home page, select the radio button beside "Link to another section" and select "common" from the pull-down list. The Home Page link for your section on the boilerplate page, when updated, will link to the course home page in /afs/eos/courses/xxx/xxxyyy/common/www/, or http://courses.ncsu.edu/xxxyyy/common/ If you teach more than one section of a course and want all your sections to share materials in one section locker rather than duplicating files, select "Link to another section" and select the section that holds the course content. In other words, if you teach CSC200-001 and CSC200-002 and want section 002 to link to section 001, select Edit WWW Boilerplate for CSC 200-002 and choose section 001 from the "Link to another section" pull-down list. To link to another URL altogether, select the the radio button beside "Link to another URL" and type in the whole URL, including the http:// part. If you wish the changes to take place within 15 minutes rather than during the regular system update, return to the WolfWare Toolbox Main Menu (http://wolfware.ncsu.edu/wrap-bin/admintool) and select Request Boilerplate Update. For more information on WolfWare, see http://wolfware.ncsu.edu/help/ and http://courses.ncsu.edu/.
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