Creating and Publishing Web Pages

What's New

Student, Staff, Faculty, Courses, Depts Web Server Upgrades
February 2008

Run MySQL without installing it yourself.

New instructions for using a UW Technology-installed copy of MySQL.
November 2007

The Web Publishing
Discussion Board has been upgraded to GoPost, Catalyst's new discussion board.
August 2007

Ruby on Rails is now available on students, alumni, faculty and courses Web servers. 2007

Instructions for Installing Wikis have been published.
April 2006

Instructions for Installing WordPress now include how to use UWNetID authentication.
March 2006

Adobe GoLive CS 2 can publish with SFTP.
May 2005

UW Technology provides a suite of Web servers for use by the UW community. This Web site provides an online manual for creating and publishing Web pages on these Web servers.

Getting Started

Getting Started
Find a Web server to host your Web site, create your initial home page, and learn about HTML and Web authoring tools.

Support and Training
Need help with your home page? Check our support and training resources for Web publishing.

Intermediate-Level Website Management

Using HTML Authoring Tools
Learn more about using common tools for creating and managing Web sites: Dreamweaver, GoLive, FrontPage, etc.

Setting Unix Permissions For Web Pages
Learn how to fix incorrect Unix permissions for Web pages.

Controlling Access
Control who can access your Web pages using UW NetID authentication, basic password protection, or host-based restrictions. Encrypt information using SSL.

Web Publishing Discussion Board
Discuss web publishing ideas, problems, applications and systems with other users.

Creating a Google Search Page For Your Site
Create a site-specific Google search page in a matter of minutes.

Tracking Usage
Track hits to your Web site. Determine what Web sites link to yours. Generate statistics and reports based on your personal log file data.

Adding New Media
Specify how browsers should handle new media types found on your Web site.

Custom Error Messages
How to create custom "File Not Found" and other error messages for your Web site.

Redirecting Visitors to a New Location
How to redirect visitors to a new Web site location.

Advanced-Level Web Programming

Server Side Includes
How to use SSI's on UW Web servers.

Using CGI Programs
Tips for developing your own CGI programs and processing forms.

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
The popular server-side scripting language is supported.

Using Ruby on Rails
How to start a Rails application and get it working on the web.

Do-It-Yourself (Unsupported) Web Solutions

Using MySQL
Install a MySQL server, required by many web applications and handy for building your own.

Installing WordPress
Install WordPress and start a blog. (requires MySQL)

Installing Wikis
Install a wiki for collaborative documentation.

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