ITS Web Resources
Faculty Web Site Provisioning
Table of Contents
- Overview
- Features and Provisions of faculty.virginia.edu
- How to Apply for a Site
- Your Site Name/URL
- Use and Maintenance of Your Site
- Online Application
Overview
To help ease access to the important academic work of University faculty, ITS has made available a special type of URL (Web address) and, if needed, special website space for faculty use. The faculty.virginia.edu server is intended for the academic activities of faculty and, in special circumstances, graduate students whose academic projects are endorsed by faculty. The site is a place for posting publications, class projects, and curriculum or course details. Anything related to instruction or research may be placed on faculty.virginia.edu. The information is of a more permanent nature than that accommodated by UVaCollab.
Some of the following instructions assume a working knowledge of website creation at UVa.
Features and Provisions of faculty.virginia.edu
- Our intention is to maintain URLs on faculty.virginia.edu (essentially) forever. Should you move to another institution, ITS will do what is called a “redirect” to make your faculty.virginia.edu URL go to your new website.
- You can choose the last portion of your URL, and the first part (faculty.virginia.edu) is easy to remember—so you essentially get a short, memorable address of your choosing.
- Personal pages can and should be separate from academic pages. Please maintain personal pages on your account at http://www.people.virginia.edu.
- You may use Home Directory Service to access files at faculty.virginia.edu.
- You, the requesting faculty member, are responsible for making sure that the contents of your site adhere to responsible computing guidelines established by ITS and the University.
How to Apply for a Site
- Space must be requested by a faculty member. Any request on behalf of a graduate student must come from an endorsing faculty member.
- The requesting faculty member must supply an identifying name for website, which will be used in the URL. Below are some requirements, and a few suggestions.
Your Site Name/URL
The Web address of your site is called a URL. You will choose part of that URL. For example, if you chose “projectname”, your URL would be http://faculty.virginia.edu/projectname
Following are the requirements with regard to valid site names.
- The name must be 4 or more characters, and at least the first 4 characters must be alphabetic.
- It must contain only letters, digits, underscore, or the hyphen. Some characters are impossible for various systems to process and will not be created.
- The name cannot have the form of a UVa permanent computing ID—e.g., “abc2a,” “abc2ab”
- There is no restriction on maximum length, but remember that a longer name may be harder to remember, and harder to spell.
- Embedded spaces are not allowed.
- We will not assign a name that is a UVa registered email address.
- The name is meant to be specific to your site, so it should avoid being too broad. It cannot be a word or phrase that has meaning to multiple departments or other units within the University, such as “programdesign”
- You may not choose the name of a class of computer workstations.
- You can only choose a course name if you are in charge of the course.
- Do not choose the name of what might be a real person (e.g. “Bill” or “Bill_Smith”), unless it is your name.
- Do not choose the name of a commercial organization or civic group.
- Names are assigned on a first-requested, first-assigned basis.
- ITS reserves the right to refuse names for reasons other than those enumerated here.
Use and Maintenance of Your Site
These instructions assume you have a working knowledge of website creation at UVa.
- If more than one person will be working in the site, ITS will establish a UNIX group for you. In this case, access to modify the site is limited to members of the group. Group members log into blue.unix.virginia.edu using their own user_ids and passwords. A group may be established at any time, so you may start with a single person owning the site, and add group features later.
- Once a group has been established, the group owner may add and remove group members by using the Home Directory Accounts Maintenance utility.
- When using ftp or terminal software to connect to the server, use the host name blue.unix.virginia.edu The directory path on the server is /web/faculty.virginia.edu/doc/projectname/, where projectname is the name you chose for your Web site.
- If you wish to use Home Directory Service to to connect to faculty.virginia.edu from a Windows machine, change the “Server Name” in the login screen to \\HOME2\FACULTY. To connect to faculty.virginia.edu from a Macintosh, connect to first to “Home1”. When the listing of available connections appears (starting with “Courses”, “Home1-top”, etc.), scroll down and select “WebHosts”.
Online Application
Complete the online Application for a Faculty Website. Note: You must have an account on blue.unix.virginia.edu. If you don't have one already, you can create your own blue.unix account from the ITS Accounts page.
