Faculty and Staff webpages

Basic information on how to set-up and upload faculty web pages.

How do I get a faculty or staff web account?

If you have an email account, your web page account has already been created for you. You can activate your account at http://weblookup.uaf.edu/

If you do not have an account contact the OIT Help Desk at .

How do I upload my web pages and directories?

www/

In your faculty/staff account on the UAF Email Server, you will find a directory named www . This directory is the main directory for all of your web files. Any web pages or additional directories will need to be placed in the www directory.

To place files in the www directory you will need a Secure FTP program like SFTP or a web design program that supports Secure FTP transfers such as Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. If you use other html editors, you will need to utlize a Secure FTP program to upload your files.

Where can I get a Secure FTP program or an html editing program?

You can get SSH Secure FTP from the OIT Download Site

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 is freely available as a key-served program for use by faculty or staff on the UAF campus. This most current version of Dreamweaver utilizes Secure FTP within the program itself. For more information about using SFTP with Dreamweaver MX 2004, visit:

SFTP with Dreamweaver

How do I place my web pages on my faculty/staff account using Secure FTP?

Instructions for connecting to your www directory using Secure FTP may be found at the following URL:

Connections using SFTP

Additional documentation is found at:

OIT Documentation

What is the file name that my main web page needs to have to automatically load and display?

index.html

You need to name your starting web page index.html The file name must be in lower case. Other web pages can be named whatever you like as long as they have the .html file extension.

Can you give me an example how I would set up links to other web pages and images in my directory?

We will use the example faculty account ffabc and the web page project.html in our web directory www . Two examples are given below; both will work. Although your web files are located in a directory called www , you do not use that directory name in your HTML code. Use either a relative path shown in the first example or your full URL path shown in the second example.

My Projects

My Projects

We will use the example faculty account ffabc and the image diagram.jpg , which we will say is located in a directory called images in our web directory www (www/images/diagram.jpg). Use either a relative path shown in the first example or your full URL path shown the second example.

How much space do I have available for my web files?

Faculty and staff web files share 90+GB of space! Web pages stored in your www directory are not counted as part of your disk quota. Any reasonable use of space is fine. You will be notified if your usage becomes exorbitant.

I need help with uploading my files. Who can I contact?

Faculty may contact the Center for Academic Technology (CAT) at 474-5988 or e-mail fnldb@uaf.edu Also, contact CAT for assistance with Blackboard questions.

Staff, and students, as well as faculty, may contact the OIT Help Desk at 450-8300, or email helpdesk@alaska.edu

Also, there is much helpful documentation available online at both the CAT and OIT Documentation pages.

What is my web URL?

Your web page's main URL will be in the following format:

http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/Your email account or
http://www.staff.uaf.edu/Your email account

For example if your account is ffabc, you could get to your main index page two ways:

http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffabc
http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffabc/index.html

What if I get a Forbidden error? What if an image isn't loading on my web pages?

Errors like these happen for a variety of reasons. Before you seek further help, though, carefully and patiently re-check your link paths for images or other files, and your URLs (web addresses). Spelling and format errors, along with incorrect paths, can be simple reasons that something stops working.

If you need assistance with web server issues, please contact the OIT Help Desk at 450-8300, or email helpdesk@alaska.edu

Can I install web CGI scripts for my pages?

There are several public CGI programs currently available to faculty or staff on their respective web servers:
Email cgi is available. You can test how it works here.
Navform cgi is also available.
For programmers, printenv is available.

If you have questions about any of these public cgi programs, you may email helpdesk@alaska.edu and the appropriate system administrator will be contacted to respond to your request.

If you require other CGI scripting for your web pages or wish to code your own CGI programs, you will need to e-mail helpdesk@alaska.edu to have a service ticket entered to obtain approval by the appropriate system administrator. Include in your e-mail message a description of what the CGI scripts do and include the CGI scripts as attachments. Several programming languages are available, including C, C++ and Perl5. However, special arrangements must be made with DCC before these may be used in conjunction with the respective server involved. This is for security reasons. You may also find that the cgi you need has already been written or that someone else may also need the same thing and be willing to share efforts.

Are there any special polices regarding what can be on my web pages?

Web page content must conform to the general Regents' Policy of Ethics and Conduct. For more information about the Regents' Policy of Ethics and Conduct visit: http://www.alaska.edu/bor/policy/4p/p04-10.html