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.

If you are not comfortable developing your own web site, please consider creating a site using OIT's sites.uci.edu WordPress service.

Overview

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 SS2K Network Account

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 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.

Accessing Your public_html Folder

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 Windows: FileZilla or WinSCP
On Mac: FileZilla

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.

The “public_html” folder is where you place your web site files.
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.

Redirecting your site to an external location

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.

Questions?

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:

SSCS provides web site hosting services only. We do not provide web site creation or maintenance services.

¹⁾

your SS2K username is usually the same as your UCInetID

²⁾

not necessarily the same as your UCInetID password; contact sscs@uci.edu to reset your password

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