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Service Availability
ITC will provide websites on www.web.virginia.edu to University
academic and administrative staff and faculty, such as instructors,
departmental database developers, researchers, etc., for the
purposes of instruction, research, and departmental materials.
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Limitations and Provisions
- The requesting person(s) is responsible for making sure
that the contents of the site adhere to guidelines established
by ITC and the University. Please refer to the following
page for a statement detailing same: Responsible
Computing Handbook.
- A person and/or department should intend to use at least
one of the scripting technologies listed under
Services. This web service
is intended for dynamic content, not static pages.
- www.web.virginia.edu is not intended for
personal web page use, FTP capability and/or any other purpose
that is provided by other ITC services such as the Home
Directory service. Because WWW.Web.Virginia.Edu hosts numerous
production websites it is not intended for personal development
and testing.
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Requesting a New Website
To request a new website on www.web.virginia.edu, you must
have a valid U.Va. computing ID. Please fill out the online
form below.You will be notified when your website has been created.
Online Request Form
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Website Naming Guidelines
Unless otherwise specified, the default name for a web directory
will be the U.Va. Computing ID of the requesting person. Departmental
or course directory names can be requested and will be reviewed
on a case-by-case basis. A generic web address is: http://www.web.virginia.edu/[website name]
Requesting an website name other than the web account holder's
U.Va. Computing ID:
- Names are assigned on a first-requested, first-assigned
basis.
- Names must be 4 or more characters and at least the first
4 characters must be alphabetic (so that they do not conflict
with U.Va. Computing ID's).
- U.Va. registered e-mail aliases are not allowed.
- The name can contain only letters, digits, underscore,
or the hypen. Some characters are impossible for various
systems to process and will not be created.
- The name must be nine characters or less.
- Internal spaces are not allowed in the name ("a b
c" is not an allowed name).
- This name is meant to be specific to your site, hence,
it needs to avoid being too broad. For example: It cannot
be a word or phrase that has meaning to multiple departments,
divisions, or schools within the University. For instance,
"programdesign" is too broad to be used as an
alias.
- The name must not have multiple meanings within the broader
University community. Choose a term that reflects your specific
purpose(s).
- The name cannot be the name of a class of computer workstations.
- The name cannot be a commerical organization as the University
is not allowed to support commercial interests.
Requesting a virtual host:
- Micro Systems will, upon request, set up a host-header
based virtual host pointing to the website sub-directory.
The website will still be available via www.web.virginia.edu/[website name],
but will also be available via the virtual host header name.
- Host names must first be approved by the hostmaster by
sending e-mail to hostmaster@virginia.edu. The hostmaster
will also be the one to assign the alias to the web server's
standard DNS name.
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Supported Development
ITC Micro Systems will support developers with problems and issues
related to the server platform only. Server or platform related
questions should go to itc-microsystems@virginia.edu.
In general Micro Systems will not install any third-party
software on the server, or change the configuration of the
server to accomodate third party software. All developer code
must run in a website's directory.
All general development questions should go to web-consult@virginia.edu.
Please Note: Applications involving senstive data, including
medical data, and some types of student data are not allowed
on the www.web.virginia.edu. Please
see the Server Architecture and Security document.
Programming Environment
- Microsoft Classic Active Server Pages (.asp files)
- Microsoft ASP .NET (.aspx pages)
- Perl, as published by ActiveState (.pl, .plx files)
- Limited support for compiled CGI programs
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Disk Space
and Resource Allocation
Disk Space
Each website will be allocated 1 Gigabyte of disk space.
Additional disk space can be purchased from ITC in 250 megabyte
increments.
To request additional disk space, send e-mail to itc-microsystems@virginia.edu.
Server Resources
If a site is using more than its share of server resources
(including CPU utilization, bandwidth, and memory usage) the
ITC Micro Systems group reserves the right to move that site
to a for-fee service, as necessary, to ensure the continued
functioning of the web server for the rest of the University
community.
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Fees
The following groups will get basic service free of charge:
- Instructional Faculty
- Researchers
- Staff
- Departments
The following groups will pay fees for usage on a case-by-case
basis:
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