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Create Your Own Web Page

Anyone with an IFS home directory can set up a home page on http://www.umich.edu/ or http://www-personal.umich.edu/. Follow our homepage instructions to create a web page for yourself or for your school, department, class, student organization, or other group.

Make Your Pages More Dynamic: CGI & SSI

  • counter - maintain an access counter which increments every time someone loads your page
  • finger - look up anyone at umich.edu from your web page.
  • guestbook - allow visitors to append comments to a web page.
  • htmail - create forms and simple surveys that email the results to you
  • send me - redirect users from your page to any internet host.
  • server side includes (SSIs) - make any umich web page more dynamic.
  • survey a form-to-database gateway for easy polling
  • swishgate - full-text searching of documents in your IFS home directory

Restrict Access to Your Site

  • Learn how to use our single sign-on solution, weblogin to conduct secure authentication on your site using cosign
  • htaccess - htaccess files allow user, ip address, or group based protection of web sites.
  • Private webspace - Private webspace protects resources via umich.edu uniqname and kerberos password. If your users are on campus, this is a better solution than htaccess.

Monitor Usage with Access Logs

  • flume - allows you to generate monthly log reports for your www.umich.edu or www-personal.umich.edu hosted web site.
  • web hosting reports - monthly log reports for all of our virtual hosts.

Work with AFS

  • afs via the web: afs.umich.edu
  • managing access control lists
  • managing pts groups

Transfer Files Securely

  • afs via the web: afs.umich.edu
  • scp/sftp
  • ftp tunneling: mac/unix
  • ftp tunneling: windows