General Information
The Office of Information Technology hosts web pages for Auburn University students, employees, and organizations.
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