The groups.inf.ed.ac.uk service is a simple way to serve content that's in Group space (a /group/project/<project-name>/ area) as a web page. Ask for group web space using the support form, giving the location of your group file space and the name for the base of the URL.
The DICE software page explains how (and when) to request extra software for DICE. This page describes how these software requests are prioritised and dealt with.
Software requests - made using the Computing Support Form - are initially scanned by front line support staff.
For help with scanning read Scan to Email (IS).
There is a Central Wiki Service. For more information, including details on how to request a wiki, see their support documentation.
For external collaborator access use an EASE Friend account (see Your University Login and Friend (formerly EASE Friend) wiki access for details).
Due to legal constraints we do not, and cannot, allow unfettered access to Informatics web server logs.
The benefit of AFS web space is that access can be made more selective and more robust by using standard ACLs, and additional access constraints can be implemented with further refinements in .htaccess files.
In order to serve web pages, the web server needs to be able to read them. Under NFS or a local file system, web pages are usually group-owned and readable by the apache GID.
Some Informatics web pages are restricted so that only local users can gain access. (For advice on how to do this for your own web pages see General web questions). This page gives guidance on how local users can gain access to restricted web pages when not on a local machine.
Listed below are an assortment of frequently, and not so frequently, asked questions relating to websites and webpages hosted by the School of Informatics.
If the question you wanted to ask isn't covered here, then please check the support FAQ as well.
Most Informatics staff and research related postgraduate students can publish personal web pages on the homepages.inf service. Most are also allowed CGI script access. Users are responsible for anything that they publish, and they are bound by the Computing Regulations.
If you have permission for either of these, you will find these directories on DICE computers:
/public/homepages/username/web
and
Information on existing corpus material can be found at www.inf.ed.ac.uk/resources/corpora/.
Note that the corpus structure is not maintained by Computing Support (the maintainers can be contacted via corpus-admin@inf.ed.ac.uk). The above web-page is updated whenever new corpora are added.