If you need a personal web page (aka. tilde webpage), you can get access to an AU setup via your AU account. This solution replaces a number of previous institute specific setups.
It is recommended not to use tilde pages for research data, as the tilde/web page will be shut down when a user account is deactivated and therefore data is lost.
To gain access to tilde-webpages you must create a case via support.au.dk, where you state your AU username (AU-ID) and asking for access to a tilde webpage.
In order to gain access to a tilde webpage, you need to be a member of the following groups:
Tilde Webpages is a solution AU offers users who needs access to a personal webpage.
As a standard your personal URL will be: tildeweb.au.dk/auAUID
For editing and uploading files:
Host: linuxapp.au.dk
Username: your AUID (auXXXXXX)
Password: Standard AU-password - the same as you use for mail and mit.au.dk
Access: via: ssh, scp, sftp (port 22). NB! Only from AU network - e.g. via VPN
Due to automount of home-dir, access with ssh key doesn't work.
On linuxapp.au.dk, the user's tilde page-fileshare is automounted under /var/www/auXXXXXX
You can create a sym link from the home folder (also automounted unixy-home):
$ cd
$ ln -s /var/www/auXXXXXX/public_html public_html
Linux and Mac users will typically use a terminal program. However, Windows users can
also use a terminal program - e.g. Windows terminal: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-windows-terminal/
You can find different GUI programs: https://cloudinfrastructureservices.co.uk/winscp-vs-filezilla/
WinSCP can be installed on Windows via winget in Windows Terminal:
Further information: https://winscp.net/eng/docs/interfaces
FileZilla exists for both Linux, Mac and Windows. For Mac and Windows you can also use Cyberduck:
As files are located on a personal Isilon-share, they can be restored
If you work in terminal, you can navigate to one of the "invisible" subfolders called ".snapshot". Here you can find older versions in named folders.
E.g.:
$ cd public_html/important-docs/.snapshot
The solution is based on personal Isilon shares with standard AU valdation. Write access to files is based on a Linux server with automount of Isilon-share, that can be accessed via port 22 from AU-network.
The webserver is an Apache https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/public_html.html
Default URL: https://tildeweb.au.dk
It is possible to use PHP, but you yourself are responsible for adapting the PHP-code when new versions are released. The PHP code is executed in the context of the individual user without access to the system or other users' files. Updates will take place during AU IT's Service Windows
In case of security risks, emergency updates may occur.
If necessary, access can be granted to a MySQL db.
It is not possible to use CGI due to security.
There need to be an index page. Folder display is not activated by default.
If you want folder view for a folder, create an .htaccess file in the wanted folder. Write "Options Indexes" (Without '' ) in the file.
NB! Redirect to other pages is not alloud.