Help
For immediate assistance contact your primary Web support person.
Report bugs and suggestions to
.
Please be very specific as to what you did and what the server or program
did. Thank you for your assistance.
Briefings for Working Environment
Briefing Power Point Slide show
Connecting to the development
server via SSH, Dreamweaver , Contribute or FTP
You are required
to set a new passwords for your account on the Web server in order to
upload changes to your Web site and use the "Deploy" program.
Passwords are held to higher security standards on the new server. More Information..
Please review these standards before you login to reset your password.
If you do not have SSH software on your computer our password information page
provides links to free downloads. If you need more help, please contact your
desktop support person or the University IT Center help desk (x52000). Do not
contact Web Services for this support.
Once you are ready to login with your SSH client the address of the
development Web server is www.wdev.rochester.edu. Using the same username and password
you were using prior to the migration, login and you will receive a
prompt to update your password. If you do not remember your username
and/or password, you must go to the University IT Center in Rush Rhees Library
to have your password reset. This CANNOT be done over the phone or by
e-mail.
Once your password is reset, remember to install that same password
in any software that connects to the Web server such as Dreamweaver
, Contribute or an SFTP client.
The SFTP and Dreamweaver remote address is www-ftp.Rochester.edu. NOTE:
If are still connecting to www.rochester.edu in your SFTP program it
will no longer work.
Deploy
Using the new development server, information providers will be able
to preview their work as it will appear on the Internet without actually
having it "linked" to www.rochester.edu.
In order to move sites from the development server www.wdev.rochester.edu to www.rochester.edu,
providers will need to use a utility program called "Deploy."
Additional documentation.
Dynamic Content
Dynamic content such as database services, bulletin boards, application
systems, and systems that store user input have special issues. These
resources were migrated intact and are operational.
Connecting to the development
server via browser
While the production server http://www.rochester.edu and the associated
virtual servers are unrestricted, the development server http://www.wdev.rochester.edu
and the associated virtual servers are restricted to us, the Web publishers by a privacy screen.
What does this mean? When browsing to a development server like http://www.wdev.rochester.edu
you will be prompted to enter a username and password. This is our privacy
screen to keep non-publishers and search robots out of our development
site. This is NOT asking for YOUR username/password.You can tell that
this is the privacy screen by looking for the line "name=development".
Everybody uses the same username and password for browser access to
development. This insures the development environment is private and
not searchable or linkable from outside.
This username and password has been issued to every Web publisher via
email or on paper. If you did not get yours please contact
.
The privacy screen login is effective for the duration of your browser
session. When you shut your browser down it forgets this login. The
next time you browse to the development server you will have to login
to the privacy screen again. If you browse to a different development
server during a session you will be asked to login to the privacy screen
on that server. Use the same username/password for all development servers.
After you get past the privacy screen, if you are going to Deploy,
you will see the Deploy login screen. This is where you enter YOUR username/password.
This assumes you have done your password reset. If you have not done
that this login will fail.
