UW Web Server URL Reference
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Web Development Environment
The UW provides two primary Linux cluster environments (consisting of multiple linked computer systems) for general computing:
- If you are a student, you are eligible to use dante.u.washington.edu
- If you are faculty/staff, you are eligible to use homer.u.washington.edu
- If you are both a student and employee, you are eligible to use both Dante and Homer.
In addition to dante and homer, each cluster has a corresponding web development environment. The web development environment is a single machine that is designed to run servers, contains log analysis tools, and provides other specialized tools that support web development. You can access them through Dante/Homer, or by directly connecting to these servers.
- If you are a student, your web development environment is vergil.u.washington.edu
- If you are faculty and/or staff, your web development environment is ovid01.u.washington.edu
- If you are both a student and employee, you are eligible to use both Vergil and Ovid.
Dante, Homer, Vergil, and Ovid all can read the same files. The only difference is that Dante and Homer are general linux clusters, whereas Vergil and Ovid are designed for web development.
Note: You may need to activate your dante and/or homer account.
Reference Table
The table below provides a reference for determining the Web development environments and URLs used with UW Web servers for students, faculty, staff, departments, and courses. Your base URL corresponds with your home page (e.g. index.html).
| Your Affiliation | UNIX Environment | Web Development Environment | Your Base URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student | dante.u.washington.edu | vergil.u.washington.edu | http://students.washington.edu/netid/ |
| Faculty | homer.u.washington.edu | ovid01.u.washington.edu | http://faculty.washington.edu/netid/ |
| Staff | homer.u.washington.edu | ovid01.u.washington.edu | http://staff.washington.edu/netid/ |
| Course (Shared UW NetID) | homer.u.washington.edu | ovid01.u.washington.edu | http://courses.washington.edu/netid/ |
| Departmental (Shared UW NetID) | homer.u.washington.edu | ovid01.u.washington.edu | http://depts.washington.edu/netid/ |
To form a full URL for a specific file in your Web directory, first substitute netid with your UW NetID. Then, if the file is in a subdirectory, append the subdirectory to your base URL. Finally, add the filename itself.
You will connect to the server and web development environments using SSH/SFTP on port 22. Your web files are located in public_html, unless you have both employee and student web publishing turned on. Then you will have public_html for your staff website and student_html for your student website.
Examples
The examples below, each consisting of a description followed by a hypothetical URL, illustrate how base URLs are made into full URLs.
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A HTML file stored in a faculty member's web directory (public_html/notes.html)
http://faculty.washington.edu/gilcrest/notes.html -
A Word document stored in a subdirectory (public_html/histories/concerns.doc) of a faculty member's web directory
http://faculty.washington.edu/gilcrest/histories/concerns.doc -
A GIF image stored in a course account's web directory (public_html/debotton.gif)
http://courses.washington.edu/engl345/debotton.gif -
A JPEG image in a subdirectory (public_html/profiles/chair.jpg) of a departmental account's web directory
http://depts.washington.edu/english/profiles/chair.jpg
Moving Files
Information about transferring files in more detail can be found at this website.
