People.uic.edu

What Is It?

People.uic.edu is the free shared personal web hosting platform for our faculty, staff, and students at UIC. The default URL for sites on people.uic.edu is http://yourNetID.people.uic.edu. You can sign up for your account by visiting people.uic.edu.

Features

• You can manage content using SSH and SFTP clients (like Dreamweaver), or map your account as a network share.
• people.uic.edu is designed to be a personal web publishing platform, so group access is not supported.
• Each account has a 1 GB maximum disk usage quota.
• We may install content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal on people.uic.edu at your request, but we cannot provide support or troubleshooting.
• You may use SQLite or request an external MySQL database to use along with your people.uic.edu site.
• PHP and CGI are supported (codewrap and cgiwrap are no longer required).
  Custom Perl and PHP libraries may be installed in your home directory.
• You may use .htaccess for access control, error pages, and redirects, among other things.
• Web server logs are available in your home directory (/home/NetID/logs).

Requirements

[Requirement information, if applicable]

Who Is Eligible To Use It?

• Faculty
• Students
• Staff

Where Can I Get It?

Select the Request Personal Website button located on this page.

How Do I Use It?

How do I connect to people.uic.edu?

How Much Does It Cost?

This service is funded by the University/Self-Supported/Basic Bundle; there are no direct costs to clients.

How Can I Get Support?

[Support contact information. Generally a link to the Get Help service, along with any phone number and/or walk-in location that is applicable.]

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