MECH IT doesn’t directly support or manage department, faculty or research lab web services. Depending on your needs, MECH IT may be an informational conduit for certain aspects of the process and/or handle specific technical needs. Please keep in mind that University policy regarding commodity servers/services 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 or lab knowledge base. 

The services below are suggested web services provided as common good by the University.  If you feel the services below do not meet your required or anticipated prerequisites, please email mech-it@austin.utexas.edu for alternative solutions, such as leveraging fee for service provided by the University.

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 Confidential data and should not be used for course-related purposes.

Service Description

• Accepts UT EID login authentication

• Enterprise Technology (ET, formerly ITS) maintains security, backups, software updates, etc. at no charge

• Pre-determined set of themes, including a UT-branded responsive theme optimized for viewing on any screen size

• Service meets web accessibility requirements and policies - https://webpublishing.utexas.edu/web-accessibility

• 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 enhance the look and feel or functionality of the site.

• Track statistics, including how many people have visited your blog

• Web address example:  https://sites.utexas.edu/<sitename>

• The use of custom domain/URLs is not available with this service (ex: @me.utexas.edu or @orie.utexas.edu)

University Blog Service is available at no cost to faculty, staff, and students.

University Blog Service - Help

Faculty Members and Research Groups:

https://sites.utexas.edu/manthiram/

https://sites.utexas.edu/jwang/

https://sites.utexas.edu/lishi/

https://sites.utexas.edu/leibowicz/

https://sites.utexas.edu/dfan/

https://sites.utexas.edu/chang/

https://sites.utexas.edu/weiwli/

https://sites.utexas.edu/mangolinigroup/

https://sites.utexas.edu/pickellab/

https://sites.utexas.edu/zannoni/

https://sites.utexas.edu/clarno/

https://sites.utexas.edu/herolab/

https://sites.utexas.edu/hutter/

Web publishing on the UT Web service 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 User Responsibilities.

The UT Web LAMP stack uses the open-source software packages:

• Linux-based environment (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

• Apache HTTP server

• 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>.me.utexas.edu or @robotics.utexas.edu).

• Backups:  backups are self-managed by the user/owner of the site directory

• Unix shell access via UT EID

• Access to both Git and SVN version control tools

• CGI Scripting

UT Web hosting is currently available to university departments at no cost.

Research Groups:

https://ndml.me.utexas.edu/
https://www.apscl.me.utexas.edu/
https://yugroup.me.utexas.edu/
https://zheng.engr.utexas.edu/
https://robotics.me.utexas.edu/

• ET-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 top-level customization except for logos.

• Web address within cloud.wikis.utexas.edu domain (e.g., cloud.wikis.utexas.edu/wiki/spaces/mechitpublic/)

• EID authentication for wiki contributors

• Choose to protect pages with EIDs or publish publicly available pages for service information

University Wiki Service Help Pages

UT ServiceNow University Wiki Service page

University Wiki Service is available at no cost to CSUs, faculty, staff, affiliates and students.

• Custom distribution of the Drupal content management system (CMS)

• Service meets web accessibility requirements and policies - https://webpublishing.utexas.edu/web-accessibility

• University-branded themes, drag-and-drop page layout tools, and add-ons such as News, Events, Profiles

• Paid service of $305/year (allows up to 35K unique site visits)

• Drupal updates, security, themes, and backups are provided by the ITS Drupal Team

https://demo.drupalkit.its.utexas.edu/
https://reneu.robotics.utexas.edu/
https://webpublishing.utexas.edu/
https://datacenters.utexas.edu/
https://mrsec.utexas.edu/