/users/group/STRING/public_html/index.html shared More on the tilde convention: Can use it at command-line: cd ~/bin is same as cd $HOME/bin www.computing (also here ) is running Solaris . Uses similar tilde convention for user web pages. two web servers, two file systems: URL server IP server OS result http://student.computing.dcu.ie/~STUDENT/ 136.206.11.245 Linux Works.