WebSpace

2015-04-14T18:50:17Z

Mmills43: edited the user directory windows folder link to indicate that the username should follow a slash following the rest of the link.

UMIACS provides web space hosting for research/lab pages and user pages.

==Main Website and Lab Pages==

<pre>http://www.umiacs.umd.edu</pre>

Users can access the main website and lab sites for editing in two ways:
* From Unix as /fs/www - and can be remotely accessed by [[SFTP]] to a supported Unix host (eg. [[OpenLAB]])
* From Windows as \\umiacs-webftp.umiacs.umd.edu\www-umiacs - and remotely accessed by the same file share over the [[VPN]]

Faculty members and authorized users can modify their own public profiles on the main UMIACS homepage. For instructions, see [[ContentManagement]].

==Personal Web Space==

<pre>http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~username</pre>

Users can access their website for editing two ways:

* From Unix as /fs/www-users/username - and can be remotely accessed via [[SFTP]] to a supported UNIX host (eg. [[OpenLAB]])
* From Windows as \\umiacs-webftp.umiacs.umd.edu\www-users\username - and remotely accessed by the same file share over the [[VPN]]

In general, large datasets related to a Labs research should go into the specific lab's web tree, not the individual users. Remember that users' webpage is not permanently maintained once the user leaves UMIACS.

==Adding A Password Protected Folder To Your Web Space==

1) Create the directory you want to password protect or <tt>cd</tt> into the directory you want to password protect

2) Create a file called ''.htaccess'' (<tt> vi .htaccess</tt>) in the directory you wish to password protect.

3) In the file you just created type the following lines

<pre>AuthUserFile "/your/directory/here/".htpasswd
AuthName "Secure Document"
AuthType Basic
require user username
</pre>

For example, if you were going to protect the <tt>/fs/www-users/username/private</tt> directory and you want the required name to be <tt>class239</tt>, then your file would look like this:
<pre>
AuthUserFile /fs/www-users/username/private/.htpasswd
AuthName "Secure Document"
AuthType Basic
require user class239
</pre>

4) Create a file called ''.htpasswd'' in the same directory as ''.htaccess''. You create this file by typing in <tt>htpasswd -c .htpasswd ''username''</tt> in the directory area to be protected.

In the example above, the username is <tt>class239</tt> so you would type <tt>htpasswd -c .htpasswd class239</tt>

You will be prompted to enter the password you want. The ''.htpasswd'' file will be created in the current directory and will contain an encrypted version of the password.

To later change the username, edit the ''.htaccess'' file and change the username. If you want to later change the password, just retype the above line in step 4 and enter the new password at the prompt.

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