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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. 

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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.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

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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.

Specifications

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

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Apache HTTP server version 2.2
  • MySQL version 5.6 (local installations)
  • PHP programming language versions 5.3 and 5.4
  • Limit storage usage to 10 GB per site
  • Custom domains such as @ece.utexas.edu or @mer.utexas.edu is available.

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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