Using Your UAF Web Account

About the UAF web server
Steps for getting an account
What you will see when you sign in
Important tips on uploading files
Web Account Request Form

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About the UAF web server

The UAF Roxen webserver (www.uaf.edu) hosts accounts for UAF Departments and Organizations. Faculty, staff, students and student organizations can create a Google site using their Alaska.edu Google Applications for Education accounts.

The information below is for reference access to legacy Apache sites. The Apache web server is scheduled to be no longer available starting July 1, 2010.

Departmental accounts are a shared resource for a department and are managed by one or more people within that department. Departments are solely responsible for the content of pages on their account and for the behavior of individuals using their account. In cases where a faculty member is teaching a class and needs web resources for it, the faculty member should look into either the Blackboard web server or the Faculty web server.

Getting Access to update web pages on www.alaska.edu or www.uaf.edu

Contact the Support Center to get access to web pages on either www.uaf.edu or www.alaska.edu.

Support Center contact information is found on the Support Center's website

How to change your password: Using SSH (windows version, mac version), sign on to apache.uaf.edu, using your userid and current password.
Type passwd
You will be prompted for the old password; type it in.
You will be prompted for the new password; type it in.
You will be prompted for the confirmation of the new password; type it in again.
Type exit

Passwords must be between 6 and 35 characters long.
We recommend at least 2 alphabetic characters and at least one non-alphabetic character.

When you need to give someone else the password, DO NOT SEND IT THROUGH EMAIL--it is not secure and could be stolen. Your account could then be used by someone unauthorized.

What you will see when you sign in

1. Depending on your ftp program, when you first sign in to www.uaf.edu, you may be placed into your home directory. The files placed in this area are not accessible to the web.

Within this directory, you will find a link to your web directory. Directories and files placed here are accessible to the web. Upload all your files into this web directory.

2. Images subdirectory: Your image files go here.

Inside this folder, you will find a link called shared that goes to the Global Images Library. This library contains a list of images that are available for public use by university people. UAF logos can be found here, as well as pictures of the UAF campus and other images.

Important tips on uploading files

1. PC users will need to upload using SFTP - see Uploading Your Files - PC version) Mac users will need to upload using SFTP - see Uploading Your Files - Mac version

When uploading image files with your FTP program, PC users should set the transfer type to binary. Mac users should set the transfer type to raw data. 2. Standard file extensions are .gif, .jpg, .html and .htm.

3. Call the main html file in each subdirectory index.html.