Web :: Activating & Using Your Web Server Account

All Humboldt State University students, faculty and staff are automatically provided with an account on the local campus web server [1] to host individual and faculty course websites; the account is valid for the entire time they are associated with HSU. To ensure that all HSU-hosted websites are accessible to the entire campus community, you will be asked to take a short survey and, depending on the type of site, undertake Accessibility Training Initiative (ATI) [2] training before your account is activated.

Activating Your Site

To start the account activation process, follow these steps.

1. Log in to the Account Center [3]
2. Click the "Account Tools" tab
3. Click “Manage Your Personal Web Account”
4. Click “Request Personal Web Account”
5. Create an Alias [4] and complete the ATI Survey to request your account. If this is a faculty website, you'll need to log in to Moodle [5] and complete the required ATI training before your site can go live.

Setting Up Your Site

To upload content to your site, you can use either secure FTP (SFTP [6]) or Network Folders [7], HSU’s remote-access central file storage system for all current students, staff and faculty. Your web site files should be stored in the public_html folder. 

More about uploading content [8]

Site development and management tools [9]

Note the following changes from the previous system:

• Newer software versions (Apache 2.2, MySQL [10] 5, PHP 5) are now supported
• The use of tildes has been eliminated from URLs
• CGI scripts, including perl, are no longer supported.

Adding MySQL to Your Site

1. Log in to the Account Center [11]
2. Click the "Account Tools" tab
3. Click “Manage Your Web Account”
4. Click “Request MySQL Account”
5. Follow the instructions on the screen

IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not make any file that contains a password to a database, such as a config file, "world readable".