Accessing/Updating web pages on the Apache web server (wilbur)
Accessing/Updating web pages on the Apache web server (wilbur)
User Web Sites
Individual Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students with web sites on the ECN Apache server (wilbur) can update their web sites using either an ECN supported Windows or Unix (Solaris/Linux) computer. Web sites on the ECN Apache server are only available to Faculty and Staff who have requested a site be created.
We do not recommend Graduate and Undergraduate students get Purdue hosted websites because they are removed upon graduation, at which point all of the longevity and reputation of the site is lost. For Students, our recommendation is that you create your own website at some commercial hosting service (there are many of these, like Wordpress, Google sites, Squarespace, etc). Then, you can add a link from your graduate research group’s website to your personal website.
A personal web site hosted on the ECN Apache Server is accessible via the web at the following URL:
http://engineering.purdue.edu/~username
Updating User Web Sites from UNIX (Solaris/Linux)
From a Unix system files can be update by browsing to:
/web/users/username
where username is your career account login.
Updating User Web Sites from Windows
From an ECN supported Windows computer web pages can be updated by mapping a drive to:
\\web.ecn.purdue.edu\username
View the document on Mapping ECN Drive using Windows 7 for more information. This procedure may work from other computer systems on campus or computer systems connected to Purdue through the ITaP VPN Service.
Group (Entity) Web Sites
Groups with web sites on the ECN Apache server (wilbur) can update their web pages using an ECN supported Unix (Solaris/Linux) computer.
Group web sites hosted on the ECN Apache Server are accessible via the web at a URL like:
http://engineering.purdue.edu/ENTITY
Where ENTITY is the name of the web site.
From a Unix system, files can be updated by being logged in:
From a PC: Start -> Programs -> ECN Software -> SecureCRT 5.0.2 -> Hosts -> MACHINE
cd /web/entities/ENTITY
Or you can also use group permissions, to allow access to the web page files for editing. If you need our help, we can create a symlink to be made to that location in your homedir
mkdir shortcutToWeb
cd shortcutToWeb
ln -s /web/entities/ENTITY ./ENTITY
Create the Index.html file, to start.
If you get an error saying you can not create the file, double check you are logged into a machine where the account exists.
"ls" reporting that the files are owned by "nobody" is an indicator that the account is not on that machine.
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