Migration from WWW2 to HSCHEALTH
UCD Web services will be retiring the WWW2 web server in the next few weeks. In its place will be the new HSCHEALTH web server.
What is different?
The new HSCHEALTH webserver will not have FrontPage Server Extensions. It will not have FTP and there will no longer be local user accounts or root level accounts.
What is new?
HSCHEALTH Structure
HSCHHEALTH will have a flat structure. If the structure of your website on WWW2 included an html folder and an htmls folder, they will be combined on the new server.
Example:
Html/webservices and Htmls/webservices will be combined into webservices with a subfolder of htmls.
Secure FTP
To access your files on HSCHEALTH you will need to use SFTP. FrontPage does not have SFTP built-in but Dreamweaver and Contribute can readily handle this. Setup documentation for Dreamweaver, Contribute and a stand alone client (WinSCP) can be found at
http://www.administration.ucdenver.edu/admin/its/documentation.htm.
New OS, new applications
HSCHEALTH will run on Windows 2003 OS and IIS6. It will be secured by a VeriSign certificate. The following will also be available
ASP.NET 2.0
PHP 5.1
Perl 5.8.8
Jack’s FormMail
AWStats
The two items that you may not be familiar with are Jack’s FormMail and AWStats.
Jack’s FormMail
For security reasons SMTP will not be running on the new server. Using Jack’s FormMail will allow your forms to be emailed. Jack's FormMail.php is a universal WWW form to E-mail gateway. The "Form Action" input tag must be specified in order for this script to work with your existing forms. Use the configuration below within the code of your form.
FORM CONFIGURATION
The action of your form needs to point towards formmail.php.
ie: <FORM ACTION="scripts/formmail.php" METHOD=POST>
If you would like to know mor about Jack's form mail, here is a link to their documentation.
AWStats
Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful Web server logfile analyzer (Perl script) that shows you all your Web statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, rush hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, robots, broken links, and more.
Once the HSCHEALTH server is live we will provide you with a link to the AWStats pages.
What you will need to do to for your site to work on HSCHEALTH
First, let us know if you are no longer using your site on WWW2. That way we can just remove your old site and you will not be responsible for the information on the server.
If you want your site to continue on the HSCHEALTH server, login to the HSCHEALTH server and make sure that you can get to your folders. If you are unable to login, please call the helpdesk (303-724-4357 and 303-315-2890) and they will transfer you to Web Services.
Next, you will want to check your links. Links from UCHSC (WWW) will need to be re-done to point to the new server. Links within your site will also need to be checked and redone if necessary. Use relative links when possible. A staging server will be the next feature offered to the campus so content on HSCHEALTH will eventually reside on another machine.
Check your ASP pages. FrontPage extensions WILL NOT be loaded on the new server. If you have pages that rely on these extensions, you will need to rewrite these pages.
Make sure your connections to databases run properly.
Summary of steps departments need to take:
1. Setup SFTP – download, configure and login to star/hschealth-web-dev
2. Test connection to content
3. Delete old information, republish new content since snapshot(7-17-07)
4. Test ASP code and fix
5. Test database connectivity
6. Check SSL data
7. Convert forms to Jack’s Formmail
8. Change links from www.uchsc.edu
9. Change references to www2 to relative links
What to do if you need help
Call the helpdesk (303-724-4357 or 303-315-2890) and they will transfer you to Web Services.