Web Development
The Office of Information Technology hosts web pages for Auburn University students, employees, and organizations. OIT's Campus Web Solutions provides custom web development contract services for the Auburn University community.
Common Topics
- Things to consider before building a web page
- Hosting Options: UNIX and Windows
- Personal pages at AU
- Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) at AU
- How much web space do I have on my Auburn account?
- What other web page building Internet resources are available?
Web Page Authoring Topics
- Basic web page coding (HTML)
- Popular web page editing software
- Cascading Style Sheets and their uses
- PHP scripting and its uses
- Databases for web applications
- What is a .htaccess file?
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- Request a Microsoft SQL database
- Request a mySQL database
Telnet Access Topics
- What is SSH?
- Basic UNIX commands
- Create or redefine UNIX commands
- Understanding UNIX file permissions
- UNIX file permissions
GW Extranet Calendaring
Student Organizations
Streaming Media on the Web
- RealMedia web streaming [Streaming Support]
- Prepare multimedia for web streaming [Streaming Support]
- Embedding a web stream into a web page [Streaming Support]
- Uploading files to the Streaming Server [Streaming Support]
General How-To
- Creating a web page in OIT Computing Labs
- Publishing to the web in OIT Computing Labs
- Creating a web page outside OIT Computing Labs
- Publishing to the web outside OIT Computing Labs
- File Transfer Protocol
- Telnet
- Create accessible content (Section 508)
Windows Web Server How-To
- OIT Windows Web Server (https://fp.auburn.edu, formerly known as the FrontPage server)
- Getting started: creating webs on the OIT Windows Web Server
- How to create a subweb and assign its administrators
- How to add additional authors or administrators to a subweb
- How to password-protect a subweb
- How to check permissions of a subweb
- Active Directory Services for the Auburn Domain
- Server Variables
- Collecting payments online
- Using AJAX on the OIT Windows web server
Advanced Webmastering How-To
- Writing and using PHP scripts
- Using server-side includes
- Run a Java applet
- Setup a .htaccess file
- Restricting user access by an IP Address
- Password protecting your pages
- Accessing a mySQL database
- Redirect a web page
- Redirect files and directories
General Troubleshooting
- General Filename Tips
- Relative URLs vs. Absolute URLs
- My web page says "403 Forbidden"
- My web page says "404 File Not Found"
- I get a broken image instead of my picture
- I have an index.php, but it doesn't show up when I type in the directory URL
- I don't know what the path is for my web space directory
- My web page looks different in Firefox compared to Internet Explorer