How to publish web pages from your eGCC account.

Introduction

The web.gccaz.edu server is available for GCC instructors, departments, and clubs to publish web sites to the public. Users may also publish personal web sites on this server.

Publishing a personal web site

Your home directory has a public.www subdirectory. Any files placed here will be visible to the Internet at large via your home page URL. Your home page URL is http://web.gccaz.edu/~USERNAME where USERNAME is your eGCC user name.

Publishing a course, department, or club web site

As with home directories, each course or department folder may have a public.www directory. With the appropriate permissions assigned, the contents of this folder is automatically published on web.gccaz.edu, e.g. http://web.gccaz.edu/athletics/ or http://web.gccaz.edu/CIS105/ or http://web.gccaz.edu/stem/.

Instructors may instead (or in addition) want to publish files only to students registered for the class. This can be done by providing a files.gccaz.edu URL to the student, e.g. https://files.gccaz.edu/shared/courses/CIS105/ or more directly: https://files.gccaz.edu/shared/courses/CIS105/instructor/.

Special permissions

Any public.www folder must grant access to the webpublish account. Most users will find that this has been done automatically. However, note that if you move a file from your home directory into your personal public.www directory, it will not have the proper permissions. In this case, a "Forbidden" error page is returned by the web server when trying to access the site. This page includes a link to a web-based tool which will automatically (in most cases) repair the permissions.

Editing your web site

Existing tools such as Dreamweaver allow you to remotely edit files via WebDAV. See the instructions for accessing your home directory via WebDAV.