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 webserver (www.uaf.edu) hosts accounts for UAF Departments and Organizations. Faculty members can obtain web space on the Faculty Web Server. Students can obtain web space from the Student Web Server. Personal web accounts for other individuals can be obtained from the Deparment of Mathmatical Sciences; Computer Science Department, Chapman NT Computer Laboratory, located in room 103 of the Chapman building.

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.

Steps for getting an account on www.uaf.edu

Machine name:	www.uaf.edu
System Administrator:	Daniel LaRoe
E-mail:	fxdjl@uaf.edu

1. Check with your department to see if an account already exists.
   If you have no success at the department level, contact OIT or the System Administrator to ask.
2. If your department has no account, fill out and submit the Account Request Form.
3. After an account has been created you will be contacted and given your account name and password.

We recommend that you change this password when you start uploading to your account.

Remember your initial password--if you forget your password down the road, call the System Administrator, and your password will be set back to the original.

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.