If this is your first time setting up a website or publishing your CV, please start by contacting our Communications office to let them know your intention. Our Computing Services Helpdesk office can assist you with connecting to the server to upload files to your private website.

• Contacting the Communications Office (for all website related questions)
  • communications.socsci.uci.edu
  • Heather Ashbach: hashbach@uci.edu (949) 824-1577
  • Luis Fonseca: lfonseca@uci.edu (949) 824-6315

• Contacting our Helpdesk (for password and account assistance)
  • email: helpdesk@socsci.uci.edu
  • phone: (949) 824-1536
  • office location: Social Science Plaza B, room 1288, the first floor suite.

To change the contact info (room, phone, etc.) or profile details which appear on the School's main web site in the People section, Entire directory, or Grad student directory, contact the Communications office listed above.

To change your UCINetID information listed in the UCI Campus Directory, go there and then click on How to Update Directory Listings. Questions or problems with this can also be directed toward the Communications office.

Your personal website URL is

• https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~USERNAME

You can use the above URL and our server space to host your own website or simply to host files that you can link to. If you want to have a website at that URL, then you will have to create and upload your own index.html and supporting files (images, CSS, etc). See instructions below for connecting to our server. Uploaded files go in your “public_html” folder.

Please note that we do not provide assistance with creating a website.

If you want a website, but do not want to create it from scratch, we recommend using the Sites@UCI service provided by OIT.

• sites.uci.edu

The most common use of a website like this is to host your CV. If you have a CV, a link to it can be setup in the School's Directory. When the CV is hosted and linked to correctly, you should notice an icon like this, , next to your name in the Directory.

To do this, you will have to upload your CV as a file named “cv.pdf” (lowercase) to your public_html directory (not inside any sub-folders). Then contact the Communications office to setup the link to the “cv.pdf” file on the Directory.

If you already have your CV linked on the Directory, then you can update your CV by simply overwriting it when you upload a new “cv.pdf” file.

If you no longer wish to have your CV show up in online search results, then you should delete the cv.pdf file and inform the Communication office to remove the link from the School's Directory.

Files can be uploaded to the server using an SFTP program. We recommend:

1. WinSCP if you are using a Windows PC.
2. Fetch if you are using a Mac. UCI has a site license for Fetch. Click here to view the license details.

Then use these details to login:

When you connect, you will see the contents of your home directory listed. One of the folders should be called “public_html”. This is where you need to upload files for them to show up on your personal website.

If you use a Desktop computer in your office connected to the SS2K domain, you can simply hit the Ctrl-Alt-Del keys and click “Change a Password” from the menu.

Otherwise, you will need to use these steps (from a laptop or off-campus) to connect and change your password via a command-line program:

1. Download an SSH client, such as PuTTY
2. Connect to the server name “nexus.socsci.uci.edu”
3. Login with your current username/password
4. If this is your first login, you may be prompted to change your password, otherwise type passwd and press Enter; follow the prompts to change your password.
5. Type exit and press Enter to quit

You must use a command-line program called SSH to connect to our server and then change your password.

1. Open the Terminal, in /Applications/Utilities/
2. Type ssh USERNAME@nexus.socsci.uci.edu and press Enter
3. Type your current password when prompted
4. If this is your first login, you may be prompted to change your password, otherwise type passwd and press Enter; follow the prompts to change your password
5. Type exit and press Enter to quit the SSH session