What's included in the Pratt web hosting?

If you already have a PrattWeb site, you'll want the PrattWeb Site Owner Documentation, or for quick answers try the PrattWeb FAQ otherwise, read on.

The Pratt School of Engineering offers web hosting services to Faculty, Staff, Departments and Project Groups. Account requests can be sent to the Pratt Webmaster. New account Creation requires the following information:

Contact Name
Phone Number
Department
Desired Userid
Desired Hostname

Options:

CGI Support
SSI Support
PHP Support

All accounts include a virtual hostname, so your site will be accessible using a simple url such as http://hostname.pratt.duke.edu and a webmaster email alias so you will recieve mail sent to webmaster@hostname.pratt.duke.edu.

Account Options:

PrattWeb accounts are available with several optional features. If you need any of these features, please indicate this in your account request.

CGI Support

Accounts that support use of CGI will include a private cgi-bin directory for storage of scripts to be executed by the web server, enabling the creation of dynamic web applications. Scripts are executed with your unique userid for security reasons.

Server-Side Includes Support

Server-Side Includes enable the insertion of dynamic content such as that created via CGI above, directly into standard HTML pages.

PHP Script Support

The PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a scripting language that enables creation of dynamic documents that are part HTML and part server-parsed script. PHP Documentation and other resources including free scripts are widely available.

PrattWeb Server Support

Support for PrattWeb server issues is provided by the Pratt IT Staff. Support of website content (including CGI scripts) hosted on the PrattWeb hosting service is provided by the individual site owner.