This tutorial is designed to show you how to create your own public directory (which we will name public_html) in your account on the server you use to check your e-mail.  This is necessary if after logging onto your server and entering "cd public_html", your server tells you that no such directory exists.

1. At the prompt, type mkdir public_html and hit enter.  (this tells your server to create a directory in your account called public_html)
2. Next type chmod a+rx public_html and hit enter.   (this sets your "permissions" to allow other users the ability to look inside the public_html directory)