Get Started Working on www.washington.edu

Contact UW Technology at help@u.washington.edu:

• Request an account on a computer that has access to the UW server directories (such as bank.u). Find out more below.
• State where you would like your directory to be located in the UW site. (Look at the UW homepages and decide where you think your content best fits.)

Help is available for:

• Technical On the www.washington.edu Developer Information Web site, with answers to your technical questions. If you still need technical help, send email to www-mgmt@u.washington.edu.
• Template usage for the coordinated look and feel

The web development environment on www.washington.edu consists of two areas - a development area and a production area.

Typically, all of the work you do is done in the development area, and you "install" your files from the development side to the production side.

1. You will be assigned a development directory under:
/usr/local/wwwudev/world/

These directories are access restricted--only a limited set of users have permission to view the Web content produced in the development environment.

2. Access this directory from your computer account on one of the computers with access to the server directories (bank.u, or for UW Technology or OIM, red.cac or shiva.cac)
3. Login to your account, and at the prompt, use the unix command "cd" and the full path to your directory, for example,
   cd /usr/local/wwwudev/world/admin/parking/
4. Write or put all of your html files in the development directory or subdirectories of that directory.

You can work directly in a secure terminal window, and use a text editor such as pico or vi to create your html file. You can also develop your web pages with web tools--Dreamweaver, HTML Kit, etc. and then use secure file transfer to move your files to wwwudev.cac.

5. Only work in the development directory and use the wwwuinst installation tools to migrate files from development into production.

The wwwuinst tool automates the installation process by making an exact copy of the development files and directory structure in the production area.

After creating your Web content, you should view the files in the Web browser to make sure that they are using the standard page elements correctly, and to check formatting, style, and overall appearance.

The files you create are visible on a web browser with a development url and authentication under the url:

Once the pages are complete and ready for viewing, you will have a production url under:

The cluster computers (bank.u, red.u, etc.) use the Unix operating system. Some online resources for Unix are:

• Unix Quick Reference.
• Getting Started with Unix
• Working With Files in Unix.
• Working With Directories in Unix.

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Modified: July 22, 2008
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