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.

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 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

Group:

http://sites.utexas.edu/iforty/

Workshop:

http://sites.utexas.edu/entangledhistories/

Lab:

http://sites.utexas.edu/fast/

Research Group:

http://sites.utexas.edu/latrubesse/

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 will replace 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 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.

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

Campus Connections

Users can connect to campus developer resources outside of UT Web, including:

UTLogin
Enterprise MySQL
Enterprise Oracle
UT Forge Subversion Repository
XML Gateway for Mainframe connectivity
TED & Austin Active Directory LDAP Services

Cost

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

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

Web Publishing