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| Categories: | Website Services & Support |
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LSA's Web Hosting Environment (WHE) service uses cPanel and is most useful primarily for those technically-inclined users with very specific software needs. LSA Technology Services does not provide support after the initial set-up of the hosting environment.
cPanel is a web hosting environment that many commercial vendors use to support running multiple websites on shared servers. Our environment offers a blank canvas for you to create your own site with industry standard HTML, PHP, Perl, Python, and MySQL support. Additionally, we offer several dozen easy-install scripts for configuring common open source web applications such as WordPress, Omeka, Drupal, Joomla, MediaWiki, and many other open source web platforms. Each individual web site is generally restricted to 5GB in size.
Visit the Getting Started page to get started. On the second page of the Needs Analysis survey, you'll want to select "Web Hosting Environment using cPanel."
Additional software may be used if it can run within a local user context. Please contact lsatechnologyservices@umich.edu if you have any questions about whether or this environment can meet your requirements.
Technical Specification (as of February 2021):
| Operating System | RedHat Linux 7.9 |
| Apache Version | Apache 2.4.46 |
| PHP Version | 7.0 and greater |
| MySQL/MariaDB Version | 10.0 and greater |
| Python Version | 3.0 and greater |
| Perl Version | 5.x |
| Administrative Tools |
phpMyAdmin, web administration and file editing, and shell access are available |
The service is available to active LSA faculty and staff. Please note the Web Content Retention Policy applies to sites on this service.
The service is available both on and off campus. However, administrative access requires being on campus or logged into the campus VPN.
Support is provided through LSA Technology Services Infrastructure. While the system provides robust web hosting options, it is not designed or scaled to be used as a streaming media service. We typically recommend Box.com, YouTube, or Vimeo if there is need for more than a handful of multimedia files on a given site.
Visit the Getting Started page to get started.
Fill out the Needs Analysis. On the second page of the Needs Analysis survey, you'll want to select "Web Hosting Environment using cPanel."
URLs are of the form protocol://hostname/uri.
The protocol can be either http or https as the user prefers. Both will work.
The hostname is of the form “requested-site-name.existing-department-domain.lsa.umich.edu.” Where the existing-department-domain is a domain where the requestor has an appropriate affiliation. As an example, an appropriate hostname request for the old LSA IT department could have been http://web-hosting.lsait.lsa.umich.edu.
The URI is not required and is at the discretion of the site owner. A site can have multiple URIs, or have their website display as protocol://hostname.
In the event of a conflict, such as Dr. B. Smith asking for “smith-lab.lsait.lsa.umich.edu” when Dr. A. Smith already has that URI assigned, the support team respects a first come first service approach to the hostname, and will work with Dr. B. Smith to find a name that works for all parties.
The support team is allowed but not required to grant exceptions to this policy.
For more details please visit the official LSA URL Policy here.
| User Groups: | Faculty Services ; Researcher Services ; Staff Services |
|---|---|
| Categories: | Website Services & Support |
TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
G155 Angell Hall, 435 South State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–1003
734.615.0100
LSATechnologyServices@umich.edu
