Note of 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.)

To edit your group's web site

• https://static-webdav.kproxy.cornell.edu/ccb-groupname/
• Short instructions
• Longer instructions below, if the short instructions are not enough

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 an email with your web site’s name (or group’s name), and the NetID and name of the person needing access, to <chemweb//AT//cornell.edu>. Use the same procedure to remove someone’s rights. Thank you!

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.

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

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

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Or, use Dreamweaver or the like, if your group already owns and is used to using this software. Here's a 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 this 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 WebDav settings in Windows 7 the source page is here:

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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.

CIT's links

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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

Send a request to ChemIT. Here are two ways to do that:

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