UNC Charlotte College of Information Technology Apache Web Server

This web page is intended to inform UNCC affiliates about the purpose and operation of the COIT web server.

This server provides web publishing functionality for any data stored on the campus Novell File System.

Multiple web sites are hosted on this web server and the content of those websites is stored in the Novell File System and can be edited directly by any UNCC affiliate that has been given rights to the particular directory.  

This web server is designed to publish the individual personal web space of COIT faculty and staff.  

Here is how it works...

The URL for your personal webspace will be

http://coitweb.uncc.edu/~yourusername

so in my case it is

http://coitweb.uncc.edu/~jmrabon

To set this web space up you need to do a few things..

1) Create a "public_html" directory underneath your home directory, also known as your "H" drive

2) Give the Userid that runs the apache web server process rights to "read" files in the "public_html" directory you created.

3) Create an "index.html" text file in that same "public_html" directory with something in it.

4) Test it out, open a browser and visit http://coitweb.uncc.edu/~yourusername

Example:

While logged into a campus standard SNSII Windows XP computer launch a command prompt:

H:

cd \

mkdir public_html

cd public_html

Z:\rights . rf /user=.itservlets.coit.AA.USERS.UNCCHARLOTTE
echo "Hello, World!" > index.html

explorer http://coitweb.uncc.edu/~myusername

Here are screen shots of me doing it..

STUDENTS can follow these exact same directions above, but you will have to reference your website with a different URL, namely

http://webpages.uncc.edu/~studentid

Ok, that's personal web directories in a nutshell.

If you are part of COIT and would like any of the following:

1) A hosted "whatever-you-want.uncc.edu" site on this server that you can directly control the content of.

2) Additional functionality added to this server

3) Additional help getting something to work on this server.

Please contact coit-techsupport@listserv.uncc.edu with the request..

Examples of web sites hosted at this server are:

http://dvg.uncc.edu

http://isr.uncc.edu

http://dair.uncc.edu

The following URLs that reference personal websites are only available to the faculty / staff of COIT:

http://www.cs.uncc.edu/~yourusername

http://www.sis.uncc.edu/~yourusername

Students will still need to reference their websites using

http://webpages.uncc.edu/~studentid

If you would like to add basic authentication to a directory on you web site click here.

Page last updated:  11/04/2005