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--- howto:sscs:setup_website [2020/09/24 23:29] – jnilsson
+++ howto:sscs:setup_website [2024/11/05 17:12] (current) – jnilsson
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-====Setting Up Your Web Site====
+====== Setting Up Your Web Site ======
 Please note: The school does not provide web site development for individuals, so each person is responsible for developing their own web site.
-===Overview===
+If you are not comfortable developing your own web site, please consider creating a site using OIT's [[https://sites.uci.edu|sites.uci.edu]] WordPress service.
-  * Personal website URL: ''%%https://www.socsci.uci.edu/~username%%''
+===== Overview =====
-    * You can also use your department website's domain name instead of socsci
-  * Upload files to your site via SFTP on the server ''nexus.ss.uci.edu''
+  * Personal website URL: ''%%https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~username%%''
+  * Upload files to your site via SFTP on the server **''nexus.socsci.uci.edu''**
   * Website files go in the folder: ''public_html''
-===Your Network Account===
+==== Your SS2K Network Account ====
-All Social Sciences faculty, staff and grad students are eligible for accounts on the school's network domain, called an SS2K account. This provides you with login to your office Windows computer and other network resources, including a public_html folder on the school's file server that you can use to create a personal web page.
+All Social Sciences faculty, staff and grad students are eligible for accounts on the school's domain, called an SS2K account. This provides you with login to your office Windows computer and other network resources, including a public_html folder on the school's network file server that you can use to create a personal web page.
-To setup this folder for web page use or to request a new account, please email Social Sciences Computing Services at [[mailto:sscs@uci.edu|sscs@uci.edu]].
+To request a new account, or reset your password in case you don't know it, please email Social Sciences Computing Services at [[mailto:sscs@uci.edu|sscs@uci.edu]].
-===Accessing Your Network Home Directory and public_html Folder===
-The best way to access your network home directory is to use SFTP. There are many programs you can use to accomplish this, but here are some common ones:
+===== Accessing Your public_html Folder =====
-  * On Windows: [[http://winscp.net/eng/download.php|WinSCP]] (free)
+The best way to access your network home directory, where the public_html folder is located, is to use SFTP. There are many programs you can use to accomplish this, but here are some common ones:
-  * On Mac: [[http://fetchsoftworks.com/fetch/download/|Fetch]] (UCI site license [[http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jnilsson/sscs/fetch-license.php|details]])
+  * On Windows: [[https://filezilla-project.org/download.php|FileZilla]] or [[http://winscp.net/eng/download.php|WinSCP]]
+  * On Mac: [[https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?platform=osx|FileZilla]]
 When you have installed and opened your SFTP software, use these settings to setup a connection to our server:
-^ Server host name  | nexus.ss.uci.edu  |
+^ Server host name  | nexus.socsci.uci.edu  |
 ^ Protocol  | SFTP  |
 ^ Port  | 22  |
-^ Username  | your SS2K account name((this is usually the same as your UCInetID))  |
+^ Username  | your SS2K account name((your SS2K username is usually the same as your UCInetID))  |
-^ Password  | your SS2K password, not the same as your UCInetID((contact sscs@uci.edu to reset your password))  |
+^ Password  | your SS2K password((not necessarily the same as your UCInetID password; contact [[mailto:sscs@uci.edu?subject=Reset my SS2K password|sscs@uci.edu]] to reset your password))  |
 You do not need to provide a remote directory path or an initial starting directory. When you login, you will automatically be connected to your home directory.
-===Inside Your Web Folder===
 If your account is set up to display web pages, you will see a ''public_html'' folder. If your account has not been setup for website hosting, so you should contact SSCS to request this.
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   * Anything outside your public_html directory is private and only accessible by you.
+You are responsible for creating and uploading all website files to the public_html directory.
-===Your URL===
-The format of the URL for your web site is: **%%www.socsci.uci.edu/~username%%** (for most users the username is usually your UCINetID).
+==== Redirecting your site to an external location ====
-===Questions?===
+If you are no longer using your ''%%~username%%'' website and have set up a sites.uci.edu page or some other external website, you can redirect visitors from your ''%%socsci.uci.edu/~username%%'' site to the new location. There are a few methods to achieve this, but the simplest is to create an **index.html** file in your public_html directory with contents like this (be sure to replace NEW.WEBSITE.URL with the full location of your new site):<file index.html>
+<html>
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;URL='https://NEW.WEBSITE.URL'" />
+</head>
+<body>
+<p>Redirecting to my new website momentarily...</p>
+</body>
+</html>
+</file>
-If you have any questions regarding access to or the set up of your folder, please call Computing Services at x45476
+After you place this index.html file in your public_html file, please remove all your other old files so that the old content is not left on our server.
-**Important Notes:**
+==== Questions? ====
-  * SSCS provides only web site hosting services. We do not provide web site creation or maintenance services.
+If you have any questions regarding access to or the set up of your folder, please email Computing Services at [[mailto:sscs@uci.edu|sscs@uci.edu]].
+**Important Notes:**
-  * Currently, web sites are served only by a Linux server, not a Microsoft IIS server
+  * SSCS provides web site hosting services only. We do not provide web site creation or maintenance services.
-  * Currently, only limited php and MySQL capabilities are available - we do not provide general web services