Please note: The school does not provide web site development for individuals, so each person is responsible for developing their own web site.
If you are not comfortable developing your own web site, please consider creating a site using OIT's sites.uci.edu WordPress service.
https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~usernamenexus.socsci.uci.edupublic_htmlAll 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 request a new account, or reset your password in case you don't know it, please email Social Sciences Computing Services at sscs@uci.edu.
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:
When you have installed and opened your SFTP software, use these settings to setup a connection to our server:
| Server host name | nexus.socsci.uci.edu |
|---|---|
| Protocol | SFTP |
| Port | 22 |
| Username | your SS2K account name1) |
| Password | your SS2K password2) |
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.
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.
You are responsible for creating and uploading all website files to the public_html directory.
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):
<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>
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.
If you have any questions regarding access to or the set up of your folder, please email Computing Services at sscs@uci.edu.
Important Notes: