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:
- 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.
- After opening the program, enter 'community.wvu.edu' (excluding quotes) into the host field.
- Enter your WVU Login user and password.
- Enter '22' in the port field.
- Click the quick connect button.
- If this is your first time connecting, then click yes on the prompt to add unknown host keys.
- The Remote Site directory listing will show a folder named 'www.'
- 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.
- 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.
- Transfer the contents from your old site into the new 'www' folder on Community.
- Visit your site at http://community.wvu.edu/~wvulogin where wvulogin is your WVU Login username.