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Web Hosting
There are four web-hosting options offered at CIM. Depending on your needs, you may use any number of the following services:
Direct Web hosting
To host a personal web page, there is a hidden “.public_html” folder in your home directory. Anything placed in this directory will be publicly accessible at https://cim.mcgill.ca/~CIMUSERNAME.
The CIM server will look for the following files as the index file for your site (in order)
- index.php
- index.html
- welcome.html
- Welcome.html
- Home.html
- home.html
The CIM server will honor “.htaccess” files within your “.public_html” directory
Automatic redirection
There are multiple ways to automatically redirect visitors from your CIM page to another site. A simple way to do so is by placing the following content in a file called “index.html” in your “.public_html” directory.
<html> <head> <meta http-equiv = "refresh" content = "0; url = https://mcgill.ca"/> </head> <body> You should be redirected shortly </body> </html>
Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV)
For those requiring DAV access, create a sub-folder called “dav” in the “.public_html” folder and the content of that folder will be accessible with your CIM credentials.
Wordpress
Dokuwiki System
Custom solutions
If you have any specific web hosting needs, contact us at support@cim.mcgill.ca and we can discuss custom solutions to suit your needs.