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1. Policies and Guidelines

1.1 ITSC Web Hosting Policy

1.2 Technical Restrictions to Web Hosting Service

1.3 Guidelines and Policies for Departmental Websites
 1.4 Departmental Web Administrators

 

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1.1 ITSC Web Hosting Policy

1.1.1 University Departments/Units (Except Student Organizations)

Colleges, academic departments, research institutes, administrative and services units, and other CUHK organizations can apply for a Web Hosting Service on the CUHK Web Server.

For projects/event organizers, they can also apply for this web hosting apart from the platforms listed in 1.1.2

  1. For projects/events under any faculties/departments/units, they should request the web administrator(s) of the affiliated faculties/departments/units to create sub-directories under their websites.
  2. For projects/events jointly organized/managed by multiple departments or initiated at university level, they are also entitled to apply for web hosting under designated directory as specified in 1.1.3

To apply for the service, please print and complete the associated application form.

1.1.2 Student Organizations/Special Projects/Individual Webpages

Student organizations and special projects that have limited time span, or persons who want to create personal homepages should apply for an account on the General Purpose UNIX machine (Logic) or CUHK Community Server (iHome). Please refer to the following links for details.

To apply for the service, please print and complete the associated application form.

Student organizations/special projects/individuals may further apply the following services to get an friendly alias to their current URL.
1. CUHK Hostname Service
(for student organizations/special projects/individuals whom host their webpages on their computers which is connected to the Internet through a VPN connection )
2. Web Address Redirection Service
(for student organizations/special projects which need a URL in the form of http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/students/student-organization -name or http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/proj/project-name)

1.1.3 Entitlement of Directory Listing

  1. All faculties, departments and units are entitled to apply for first level directory.
  2. For projects/events under any faculties/departments/units, they should request the web administrator(s) of the affiliated faculties/departments/units to create sub-directories under their websites.
  3. For projects/events jointly organized/managed by multiple departments or initiated at university level, they are also entitled to apply for web hosting under designated directory-
  • Projects: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/proj/(name)
  • Events: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/event/(name)
  • Centre: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/centre/(name)

1.1.4 ITSC Policy for Web Hosting Service (Applicable to Web Hosting at CUHK Web Server, iHome and Logic)

Please find the ITSC Policy for Web Hosting Service at this page.

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1.2 Technical Restriction to Web Hosting Service

No Dynamic pages

Due to security reasons, you can only publish static pages on CUHK Web Server. Dynamic pages (PHP, Content Management System, Database) are not allowed.

If you need to publish any dynamic pages.please consider publishing them on 'Logic' Server. Besides, we have also implemented some commonly tools for your use.

ITSC also offers charged web hosting service to cater for the special needs for dynamic pages by some departments and units. Visit here for details.

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1.3 Guidelines and Policies for Departmental Websites

Generally speaking, the Univesity and ITSC do not have requirements specifying content of Departmental Websites. Departments and Units are allowed to publish website content as they consider appropriate, and shall take full responsibility for the content their published.

Nevertheless, the University and ITSC have some policies and guidelines that departments/units should observe when using the Web Hosting Service for their respective websites.

1.3.1 Univeristy Guidelines and Policies

1.3.2 ITSC Guidelines and Policies

ITSC Policy for Web Hosting Service

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1.4 Departmental Web Administrators

1.4.1 Chief Administrator(s)

Every department/unit can have one or more Chief Administrator(s). A Chief Administrator can:

  • update his/her department's web pages
  • add or delete sub-administrators

However, a Chief Administrator cannot add / delete other Chief Administrators. To do so, please submit the following to ITSC Electronic HelpDesk.
- Requested department/unit
- Requested URL (e.g. http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc)
- Name, Computing ID, telephone number and e-mail address of the Chief Administrator(s) to be added / deleted

1.4.2 Sub Administrator(s)

Every department can have one or more sub-administrator(s). A sub-administrator can:

  • update all or part of his/her departmental web pages, depending on the priviledge granted by the Chief Administrator of that department.

Chief Administrators can grant sub-administator priviledge to student helpers so that they can develop and test new pages on the staging server. Once put into production, the students' priviledges can be revoked.

To add a sub administrator, enter his/her Computing ID and the URL you want to grant him/her, using the Departmental Web admin system. If you want to grant his/her access to only a sub-directory, please make sure that the sub-directory already exists, otherwise the sub-administrator(s) won't be able to login.

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