people.brandeis.eduBrandeis Users' Home Pages

Library & Technology Services , Brandeis University This is people.brandeis.edu, formerly known as www.unet.brandeis.edu. If you're looking for a particular person's home page, try a directory search . Here is a list of all [mostly] student club home pages on this server. If you are a spam robot looking to collect email addresses for spamming, please follow the links in our addresses directory and kickme directory . Please consider using Google Sites for your website hosting and content management. Many users will find this easier than coding their own HTML/PHP. You can request to have a CNAME or a URL redirect on the brandeis.edu doman. See mapping your site . Users may publish home pages on this server by placing world-readable files in their WWW directory. The URL of all pages is http://people.brandeis.edu/~username/ Basic "How To" directions from the Bio Wiki Supported features: Static web pages (supporting Lightweight Markup Language 1.1 ) and images ( GIFs not recommended due to patent issues ). Standard Apache spelling correction and server side includes General usage statistics Unsupported features: You can restrict access to files with standard Apache directives . Here is some help creating the proper password files ; the only change is that the AuthUserFile path should start at /usr/users/ your_username /WWW/ rather than /u1/www. However, since all files are readable by any UNet user, restricting them at the web server level doesn't mean much. Look at file-storage on my.brandeis.edu . for an alternative. You can also protect access using CoSign , the login system used with Brandeis Gmail and LATTE. See the instructions here . This server has been built with PHP 4 , including LDAP support. Files ending in .php will be processed. To protect the system from poorly written scripts, all filesystems are mounted read-only and certain dangerous shell commands are disabled. If you want to save input, you need to do it through email. You can do something like mail("you@brandeis.edu",$subject,$body,"X-Originating-IP: " . GetEnv("REMOTE_ADDR")) Features we can never support on a server with 8,000+ users, so don't bother asking: Arbitrary database development. Microsoft FrontPage Extensions and other typical IIS security holes...