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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 such as leveraging fee for service alternatives provided by the University.

If you are a student organization, please read Student Organization Web Publishing Options

 

 

University Blog Service 

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

Features

  • Log in with your UT EID login information
  • ITS maintains security, backups, software updates, etc. at no charge
  • Limited to no effort needed in design or coding
  • Customize the look of your blog with one of over 6 available themes, including a couple of UT-branded responsive themes optimized for viewing on any screen size
  • Multiple users with active UT affiliation can have access to update pages
  • Track statistics, including how many people have visited your blog
  • A Web address in the utexas.edu domain
  • Can also establish an @ece.utexas.edu or @mer.utexas.edu domain/URL

Note:  WordPress creates the content for you through a GUI front-end. You can't use JavaScript or CSS, and you're limited in HTML

Cost

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

University Blog Service - Help

Example sites

 

Research Group:

Group:


Workshop:

Lab:
Faculty Member:

UT Web 

https://www.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.

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.

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

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

Cost

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

Example sites

Research Group:

http://lca.ece.utexas.edu
http://aspires.ece.utexas.edu
http://etylab.ece.utexas.edu
 

University Wiki Service (UWS)

  • 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)

 

Who can use University Wiki Service

Managing Wiki Space Permissions

Wikis Help - Support - FAQs

Google Sites (UTMail Account) 

https://sites.google.com/a/utexas.edu

  • Write your website in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript
  • You can take full advantage of the 25GB of storage available in a UTmail account.
  • Limited to current domain name structure
  • No labels

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