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Choosing a World Wide Web server

UVM faculty, staff, students, departments, and organizations have several options for making their World Wide Web (WWW) pages public. Information providers should evaluate the audience for their information before selecting a WWW server. Some local WWW servers are described below.

Note: Regardless of which server you use, you will need follow the procedures described in the section on Web Management in order to get a link made in the UVM campus Web to your information.

• www.uvm.edu
  
  This system is available for UVM faculty, staff, students, departments, and organizations to provide information of and about the university and for personal home pages. The server software currently executes on a processor also know as moose.uvm.edu; however, the disk space, user directories, and files served by moose can be accessed by any processor in the zoo cluster.

• www.med.uvm.edu
  
  Clients of the Medical College may choose to put their home page on this computer. www.med.uvm.edu is also known as salus.med.uvm.edu. Contact webmaster@med.uvm.edu for further information.

• www.emba.uvm.edu
  
  Clients of the College of Engineering may choose to put their home page on this computer. Disk space, user directories, and files served by www.emba.uvm.edu can be accessed by any processor in the emba cluster. Contact webmaster@emba.uvm.edu for further information.

• Other servers
  
  The UVM web is big! There are about fifty different servers across campus, located in office, closets, and who knows where else.

• Setting up your own server
  
  Some departments and organizations may find it more convenient to set up their own World Wide Web server than to transfer files to another system. This can be done on a Unix workstation, a DOS machine, or a Macintosh. The machine must be left on and connected to the Internet at all times for the Web pages to be accessible. For more information, see Setting up a World Wide Web server.

If you have questions about which server to use, please feel free to contact the CIT Helpline.

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