Consider an alternative: More and more Chemistry research groups are using CU Blogs to host their research group web site since doing so is easier to edit from many more locations, easier to share or transfer editing responsbilities within a group, and doesn't require client-side software (which must be selected, purchased, installed, and configured, updated and possibly transferred from one computer to another.)

See also:

• Static web sites

Table of contents:

To edit your group's web site

• https://static-webdav.kproxy.cornell.edu/ccb-groupname/
  • the use of /"ccb-" is a convention adopted to have CIT group all of Chemistry's static websites together, when they were migrated to CIT. Example:
    • https://static-webdav.kproxy.cornell.edu/ccb-stockroom/

Other info:

• Short instructions
  CAUTION: Most people are required to use Duo at Cornell. If that's true for you, see instead:

  • Connections Instructions - people who are two-factor expanded
• Longer instructions below, if the short instructions, linked above, are not enough. Or see CIT's info:
  • An Introduction To Your Static Hosting Space
• Review CIT’s Terms and Conditions for their static web site hosting service,
  • http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/staticweb_hosting/terms.cfm

To change who can edit your group's web site

If you want someone else in your group to edit your web site, simply send a request to ChemIT. Here are two ways to do that:

• Email us at ChemIT@...
• Use ChemIT's request web form.

NOTE: Please send requests to <chemweb//AT//cornell.edu> instead of to CIT since Chemistry’s turn-around will be much faster than going to CIT (by days!), and it’s more transparent and sustainable. Also, going to CIT with such a request will likely introduce technical problems with your web site if they try to honor your request.

Anyone able to add content to your web site should review CIT’s Terms and Conditions for their static web site hosting service, <http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/staticweb_hosting/terms.cfm>.

To see the disk usage of your group's web site

You, and anyone given write-access to your web site, can see your site’s disk usage at <https://static.hosting.cornell.edu:8009/status> (logging in with their NetID and password). Visiting this web page is provides a quick way to confirm someone has write rights seeing their appropriate website instance listed.

CIT's links

How to Use WebDav with a Hosted Site:

• http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/managed_servers/howto/webdav.cfm

• See in particular CIT's list of WebDav clients:

  • http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/managed_servers/howto/webdav.cfm#links

How to Transfer Files Using WebDav for Windows:

• http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/managed_servers/howto/file_transfer/filewebdavwin.cfm

To change access to edit

Reminder: Consider migrating your research group's web site to to CU Blogs instead of dealing with all of this technical overhead.

Longer instructions to connect to edit your group's web site

In Windows, we don't recommend using the built-in WebDav facility. It doesn't work reliably, if at all.

CIT recommends another tool:

• http://www.webdrive.com/products/webdrive/index.html

However, ChemIT staff did not like the interface or the license pricing of WebDrive. Please let us know if you like it, or don't like it. One of us test-drove NetDrive, which has more options and much better license pricing:

• http://www.netdrive.net/

Or, use Dreamweaver or the like, if your group already owns and is used to using this software. Otherwise, consider this product recommended by a colleague at the Vet school:

• Adobe Contribute.
  Person recommending states: This is just a simple editing tool, no bells and whistles.  But it will allow you to connect to only your pages via a connection key and also allows for a review process prior to changes being pushed to a production server.  And it only costs about $37/license.

Or try the following configuration suggestion from Barry Robinson, which ChemIT has NOT tested in production so we'd appreciate you letting us know if it helps you:

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For WebDav settings in Windows 7 the source page is here:

https://collab.itc.virginia.edu/access/content/group/69ab6142-05e0-4504-8040-8b4c95aec1a9/sakai-content/webdav_instructions.html

The relevant portion is:

Setting Up WebDAV For Windows 7

The Webclient service must be turned on in Windows 7 in order to successfully create a WebDAV connection.

To enable the Webclient service in Windows 7:
1.    From the Start menu on your desktop, go to Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > Services.
2.    Locate and set the Webclient service to Automatic, then click Apply .
3.    If the service is not already running, click Start.
4.    Click OK to close the Control Panel.

To improve upload times, disable the option to Automatically Detect Settings:
1.    From the Start menu on your desktop, go to Control Panel > Internet Options > Connections > LAN Settings.
2.    Uncheck the option to Automatically Detect Settings.
3.    Click OK to close the Control Panel.

Note: "Automatically Detect Settings" is on by default in Windows. What do you lose by turning this off? See this article:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc713344.aspx

Barry shares: It looks like there are certain firewall clients and web proxies where settings can be configured in DHCP or DNS. Do we use anything like this at Cornell? I don’t think so. The only possibility I can think of is the proxying for non-redrover 10 space for things like windows and SEP updates. But, I don’t think these proxies rely on  the WPAD protocol. But someone in CIT should know the answer for that.

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Reminder: Consider migrating your research group's web site to to CU Blogs instead of dealing with all of this technical overhead.