Text of email to Chemistry research groups with static web sites, from CRCF. These sites were moved from A&S's web server to CIT. A&S's web server is being turned off.

Greetings from CRCF,
As we had emailed last month, your group website has moved from the webserver space provided by the College of Arts and Sciences to Cornell CIT’s Web Hosting service. All the files that were on the previous Arts and Sciences’ webserver were moved to your new space on the CIT webserver.

What has changed?

  1. The address for people to access your group website has changed:

Your old group website address – <old website address>

Your new group website address – <new website address>

Faculty are reminded to update their group website link at VIVO so updates to the Chemistry Website Faculty Profile pages will be done automatically.

Anyone who attempts to go to the old website address will automatically be forward to the new website. The amount of time that this forwarding will be done has not been set in stone. Where possible, please change as many links as possible to reduce your future dependence on this automatic forwarding.

  1. The mechanism to modify, upload, and/or edit your website has changed. Previously you would connect via ftp to the server with a username and password and have access to make changes. CIT’s Web Hosting service uses the WebDAV protocol to access the files.

Access to the files is limited to authorized individuals with their Cornell netid and their Cornell netid password. There is no common username and password. Each individual with access will use their own Cornell netid and their own Cornell netid password. Access rights are discussed below in #3.

The address to solely edit your website is now via the WebDAV protocol: https://static-webdav.kproxy.cornell.edu/«Instance_name»/ ( Please be aware this is not editable via Internet Explorer/Firefox/Safari and will simply come back as unauthorized if you attempt to open this address via a web browser )

  • To connect from Windows: You can use the “Map a Network Drive” feature in My Computer
  • To connect from Mac: You can use the “Connect to Server” feature under the “Go” menu
  • To connect from Dreamweaver: Under “Manage Sites”, provide WebDAV information and add your group name to the end.

For example: instead of providing Dreamweaver with https://static-webdav.kproxy.cornell.edu/ccb-baird/, provide Dreamweaver with https://static-webdav.kproxy.cornell.edu/ccb-baird/baird/

  1. The following people have been authorized to make changes to your website:

«Admin1»   «Admin2»   «Admin3»

Users can verify their modify rights by going to https://static.hosting.cornell.edu:8009/status and attempting to login with their Cornell netid and Cornell netid password. They should be provided the status of the websites for which the user has modify rights on.

If you need to add, remove, or change the authorized users, please contact chemweb@cornell.edu.

  1. Please understand that the CIT Webservers act slightly differently than the old server provided  to us by the College of Arts and Science. Primarily, users need to be aware that the default index file for the CIT Webservers is index.html and not index.htm. Furthermore, users need to be aware that the CIT Webservers is incredibly case sensitive. Baker.JPG, Baker.jpg, baker.jpg, and baker.JPG are all different files to the new server. Make sure your webcode calls for the correct file name.

Who to contact for future questions or concerns?

                Email: chemweb@cornell.edu

While you are free at any point to contact CIT for support if you want to, it is in your best interest to contact chemweb@cornell.edu first. Mostly likely chemweb@cornell.edu will have the answer faster for you and will be more able to speak to individual Chemistry needs than generic CIT answers.

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