The address for people to access your group website has changed

If your group is called "research", the old group website address was <www.chem.cornell.edu/research>.

If your group is called "research", the new group website address is now <research.chem.cornell.edu>.

Impacts

• 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. And of course use the new website address moving forwards to help prevent future link rot.

The mechanism to modify, upload, and/or edit your website has changed.

Previously, with the A&S service, 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 NetIDpassword. There is no common username and password. Each individual with access will use their own Cornell NetIDand their own Cornell NetIDpassword. Access rights (who can edit the site) is discussed below.

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/

The mechanism for controlling who can edit your website has changed.

Faculty have designated people in their Research Group as authorized to make changes to their respective website. ChemIT maintains the authorization lists for each web site.

Individuals may 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. That page should be provided the status of the website(s) for which the user has modify (write) rights on.

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

The current service is case-sensitive, and .

The CIT website servers act slightly differently than the old server used by the College of Arts and Science.

• The default index file for the CIT website service is index.html and not index.htm.

• The CIT website service is incredibly case sensitive. Baker.JPG, Baker.jpg, baker.jpg, and baker.JPG are all different files to the new server. Make sure your HTML code calls for the correct file name, including its case.

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.