This page is meant to be a starting point for people who need to make changes to what is visible on websites hosted on the main CS webservers www.cs and www.student.cs.
Our webservers are running the Apache HTTP Server software. The Apache documentation is available at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/
. See WebFileLocations for information about where web-related files actually reside.
Many parts of the web do not come directly from HTML files stored on the server, or the HTML files are generated automatically by a program:
Here are some capabilities that are available on some of our web servers:
A desirable feature of our (the whole campus) web service(s) is a central, secure, authentication service that ideally supports single-sign on.
This whole page will need to be overhauled to refer to the new web architecture once it is in place. Here is a place to put the most important notes about the changes prior to enabling the new architecture.
See WebHosts for information about hostnames related to the web service.