nitrc:Future User Guide - NITRC-Hosted Web Site
From NITRC Wiki
On the NITRC server, every tool/resource has a home directory under /home/groups with the tool/resource "Unix name" (/home/groups/<tool/resource Unix name>). You can find the "Unix name" by going to the tool/resource Summary page and looking at the URL. The name that appears after "http://www.nitrc.org/projects/" is the "Unix name." The tool/resource's home directory has write permission by the primary administrator. This administrator can access the home directory over SFTP or use the rsync command-line utility over SSH to update the home directory.
Tool/Resource Web Page
In each home directory is an "htdocs" directory. The tool/resource administrator can create a Web page with this directory. When an index.html page is placed (by SFTP) in the /home/groups/<tool/resource Unix name>/htdocs directory, it is accessible at http://<tool/resource Unix Name>.projects.nitrc.org/. For example:
| Unix name: | example |
| Web page directory: | /home/groups/example/htdocs |
| Web page: | /home/groups/example/htdocs/index.html |
| Web page URL: | http://example.projects.nitrc.org/ |
If a project exists but does not have an index.html page, http://<tool/resource Unix Name>.projects.nitrc.org/ gets redirected to the NITRC Home page. For security reasons, PHP and CGI scripting has been disabled on the NITRC-hosted Web pages.
If you create a NITRC-hosted Web page, you may want to point to this page through the "Tool/Resource Home Page" link on your Summary page. To change the home page link, click "Admin" in the tool/resource menu, and then click "Edit Public Info."
Tool/Resource Files
You may also upload large files to your "/home/groups/" directory, and direct users to this file through a corresponding FTP URL. Place your file (by SFTP) in the home/groups/<tool/resource Unix name> directory. For example:
| Unix name: | example |
| File: | /home/groups/example/file.ext |
| File URL: | ftp://www.nitrc.org/home/groups/example/file.ext |
Uploading via SFTP
If you do not already have an SFTP client, we recommend the open-source project FileZilla client because it is easy to use and provides download restarts. Use your NITRC account and an SFTP client to connect to www.nitrc.org.
Host=www.nitrc.org
Username=<NITRC username>
Password=<NITRC password>
Port=22
On the remote server, go to /home/groups/<tool/resource Unix name>/htdocs. Upload your file from your local machine to the remote server.
| Note: Only the primary administrator, the one who registered the tool/resource with NITRC, can transfer files. |
Once your file has been uploaded, be sure to set the user and group permissions appropriately. For example, if you only want members of your tool/resource to access the file, then turn off global read access.
