All Newcastle University students are entitled to host a personal web site at http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/.
If you already have a username for the ISS Windows clusters/Common Desktop, you just need to have this added to the Unix services. If you do not have an ISS username at all, you will need to complete and sign a registration form. In either case, contact the IT Service Desk .
Note that it takes around 24 hours before your Unix account becomes active and may take longer at the beginning of the academic year.
When you register we will:
Create your personal URL. This will be of the form http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/your.name (where your.name is the first part of your University email address).
Create a directory (folder) called public_html in your Unix file space to hold your web pages. If you already have this directory, it will remain unchanged.
Set the correct permissions on both your home and public_html directories.
Add your email address to the www-announce mailing list. This is very low-traffic (a few messages per year) and is used by the Web Services team to announce changes to and important developments in the University's Web services.
SFTP (not FTP) should be used to upload files. When completing your connection details, the host name to use is personalpublishing.ncl.ac.uk.
If you would like your site to be listed in and linked from the directory of student sites at http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/ then you can request this by emailing webmaster@ncl.ac.uk. Your site will not be indexed by the University search engine until you do.
All content hosted on the University web servers must adhere to the guidelines and rules of use.