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. 

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University Blog Service 

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• Accepts UT EID login authentication
• ITS maintains security, backups, software updates, etc. at no charge
• Easily customize the look of your blog with several pre-determined available themes, including a UT-branded responsive 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
• Web address example:  http://sites.utexas.edu/<sitename>
• The use of custom @ece.utexas.edu or @mer.utexas.edu domain/URLs is not available with this service.

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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.

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 7)
• Apache HTTP server 2.4
• MySQL databases (local installations)
• PHP programming language support
• 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.

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