Links

· Policy : Using Computing Resources at Brown
http://cis.brown.edu/policy/aup.html

· CIS Support Statement : Web support
http://www.brown.edu/webpublishing/web_support.html

· Web Information Provider Contract
http://webpublishing.brown.edu

·Web Publishers Central
http://www.brown.edu/webpublishing/ (This is it)

Summary of Service

Note: this applies only to www.brown.edu. Some departments have their own servers. Other departments have outsourced their web hosting.

·         Availability:

• Available for: ”Officially recognized” Departments, Offices, Student Groups, Research Groups, Courses.
• Not available for: Individuals, unofficial groups, etc.

·         Information Provider:

• The group should identify one or more information providers for the web. (Multiple people can edit the same space.)
• An “Information Provider Contract” needs to be filled out and sent in.
• An account will be created and information will be emailed to the user.
  
• Web Hosting Service Features
• What’s available to web publishers?
• Shell access to a UNIX account
• Secure file transfer access (SFTP)
• HTML pages, images, media, etc.
• WebAuth lets you restrict pages to NetID/Password
• PHP (running in safe mode)
• Counter, form-to-mail
• User-written CGIs (perl, etc) running on cgi-user.brown.edu
• Basic web stats (www.brown.edu/Logs/analog/)
• Web Site (www.brown.edu/webpublishing)
• Listserv (info available at URL above)
• MySQL Database
• Web names – ie. short URL (like www.brown.edu/cis/)
  
• What’s not currently available?
• ASP, JSP, Ruby on Rails
• Frontpage extensions
  
• Servers
• Web publishers get an account on webpub.brown.edu
• Actual web server is www.brown.edu (their account should have links into their web server filespace).

Support for Brown Web Publishers

Web Publishing Tools

CIS supports (at the partial level) the following tools for web publishing. Users may email help@brown.edu for assistance with installing or using any of the following:

• WinSCP/Putty(Windows SFTP client for moving your files to and from web servers)
• Fugu (Macintosh SFTP client for moving your files to and from web servers)
• Terminal (Macintosh SFTP client that comes with your Mac)

In addition to these tools, CIS recommends two HTML editors:

• Macromedia Contribute - available from http://software.brown.edu
• Macromedia Dreamweaver - available from http://software.brown.edu

Other web publishing tools available for web publishers at Brown include:

• Photoshop - an image-editing application, available on the Applications server
• Adobe Acrobat - the PDF file creation application, available on the Applications server