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Web Services
Please keep in mind the University policy regarding commodity servers/services that prohibits any individual or group from running their own web services locally (e.g. physical machine in office, research area, lab, assigned workspace, etc) without the consent of the Information Security Office. This includes collaborative services such as wikis.
The services below are suggested as alternatives provided as common good by the University. If you feel the services below do not meet your required or anticipated prerequisites, please email help@ece.utexas.edu for possible alternatives alternative solutions, such as leveraging fee for service alternatives provided provided by the University.
If you are a student organization, please read Student Organization Web Publishing Options
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University Blog Service
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The University Blog Service is available for use by faculty, staff, and students. The service uses the WordPress platform. Blogs can be created by, and are available for individuals, groups, projects, or departments.
This service does not meet the FERPA requirements for hosting Category I Confidential data and should not be used for course-related purposes.
Features
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Service Description
- Accepts UT EID login informationauthentication
- ITS maintains security, backups, software updates, etc. at no charge
- Limited to no effort needed in design or coding
- Customize Easily customize the look of your blog with one of over 6 several pre-determined available themes, including a couple of UT-branded responsive themes theme optimized for viewing on any screen size
- Multiple users with active UT affiliation can have access to update pages
- Storage: Each site has a maximum of 250 MB (megabytes) for publishing documents (.pdf, .xls, .ppt, etc.) and multimedia (.png, .jpg, .mov, .wav, etc.). UT Box should be used as a storage location for large documents and media.
- Plugins & Widgets: a pre-determine set of plugins & widgets are available to enchance the look and feel or functionality of the site.
- Track statistics, including how many people have visited your blog
- A Web address in the example: http://sites.utexas.edu domainCan also establish an @ece/<sitename>
- The use of custom @ece.utexas.edu or @mer.utexas.edu domain/URL
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- URLs is not available with this service.
Cost
University Blog Service is available at no cost to faculty, staff, and students.
University Blog Service - Help
Example sites
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Faculty Member:
http://sites.utexas.edu/
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Group:
http://sites.utexas.edu/hkim/
https://sites.utexas.edu/
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Research Group:
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UT Web
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httpshttp://wwwlinks.utexas.edu/its/utweb/forms/UT Web is a Unix-based shared Web hosting environment for The University of Texas at Austin that has replaced the current Web Central service.dxbbfe
Web publishing on UT Web is available for colleges, schools, and departments that need to create websites that require Unix-based technologies such as PHP or CGI scripting. Colleges, schools, and departments may provide hosting space to their community members. All users must have a current UT affiliation as faculty or staff to log in to the service.
The UT Web LAMP solutions stack is suitable for static HTML pages as well as dynamic websites and applications. LAMP is an acronym for the open-source software packages that include: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Read about the UT Web technical specifications.
Features
- Improved performance, security, and reliability.
- A virtualized technology stack that is cloud-ready.
- Enhanced self-service capabilities to improve the Web publisher experience.
- The Information Security Office has certified that UT Web meets the minimum security standards for Category-I data.
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UT Web users must have experience using Unix-based web technologies such as HTML, PHP, and Apache, and are required to be able to manage files using the Unix command line, SSH or SFTP tools. All UT Web users are expected to know and comply with university standards and policies, specifically those listed at /wiki/spaces/utweb/pages/63865034.
Service Description
The UT Web LAMP stack uses the open-source software packages:
- User is responsible for security, infrastructure backup, software updates, file backups, and recovery
- Linux-based environment (Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL7) 6
- Apache HTTP server version 2.24
- MySQL version 5.6 databases (local installations)
- PHP programming language versions 5.3 and 5.4
Technical Features
- Virtualmin Web Panel for self-service site management
- Access to phpMyAdmin and the MySQL command-line client
- 1-click Drupal Installer
- 1-click WordPress Installer
- Self-managed file backups and recovery
- Unix shell access via UT EID
- Access to raw log files
- Access to both Git and SVN version control tools
- CGI Scripting
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- Limit storage usage to 10 GB per site
- Custom departmental domains are available (i.e., www.sitename@ece.utexas.edu or @mer.utexas.edu).
- Backups: backups are self-managed by the user/owner of the site directory
Cost
UT Web hosting is currently available to university departments at no cost.
Example sites
Research Group:
http://lca.ece.utexas.edu
http://slam.ece.utexas.edu/
http://aspires.ece.utexas.edu
http://etylabspark.ece.utexas.edu
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University Wiki Service (UWS)
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ITS-managed Atlasssian Confluence Wiki Software
- Easy-to-use web-based documentation tool
- Great for departmental or service knowledge capture and transfer
- Able to have multiple contributors with different levels of permission
- No customization except for logos
- Web address within wikis.utexas.edu name (e.g., wikis.utexas.edu/display/mysite)
- EID authentication for wiki contributors
- Choose to protect pages with EIDs, or publish publicly available pages for service information
- Able to host Category-I (FERPA) data
- Centrally funded service (no cost to departments, faculty, staff, and students)
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Who can use University Wiki Service
Managing Wiki Space Permissions
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https://sites.google.com/a/utexas.edu
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