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Where should I move my faculty website?

If you have a faculty website that uses a URL similar to http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~username, you should move this content to WVU Community.

You can follow these instructions to help transfer your site:

  1. Ensure that you have an SCP/SFTP client, such as FileZilla installed on your computer. This guide will assume you are using FileZilla but most settings should be the same for other clients.
  2. After opening the program, enter 'community.wvu.edu' (excluding quotes) into the host field.
  3. Enter your WVU Login user and password.
  4. Enter '22' in the port field.
  5. Click the quick connect button.
  6. If this is your first time connecting, then click yes on the prompt to add unknown host keys.
  7. The Remote Site directory listing will show a folder named 'www.'
  8. Retrieve your files from the public_html folder in your LCSEE home directory. You can also use FileZilla to copy these down using Legacy Shell or the Shell Servers.
  9. Check your files to ensure that all hyperlinks are using relative links instead of permanent paths. For example, 'sub/dir' instead of 'www.csee.wvu.edu/~username/sub/dir'.  Also ensure that relative links do not contain full file server paths such as ~username/public_html/sub/dir.
  10. Transfer the contents from your old site into the new 'www' folder on Community.
  11. Visit your site at http://community.wvu.edu/~wvulogin where wvulogin is your WVU Login username.

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