MathMax : Online LaTeX-Maxima editor. Before MathMax Installation : Install TeXlive (latex, pdflatex, htlatex) : http://www.tug.org/texlive/ . Install Maxima : http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ . Install ImageMagick : http://www.imagemagick.org/ . Install SWFtools : http://www.swftools.org/ . MathMax Installation : Install the MathMax directory to your public_html directory. Change privileges : chmod 755 MathMax-1.4 chmod -R 777 MathMax-1.4/upload To secure the MathMax directory, you can create .htaccess file and .htpasswd file into the MathMax directory : .htaccess file : AuthUserFile .htpasswd address AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName "login, password :" AuthType Basic require valid-user Create .htpasswd : http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/ . Start your favorite Web Browser and point to http://yourserver.yourdomain/~yourlogin/MathMax/ , or better - if it works - https://yourserver.yourdomain/~yourlogin/MathMax/ . It should be working ...