The Niagara University Office of Information Technology allows currently enrolled students to create web pages for class assignments, hobbies and personal use.  Information Technology does not provide technical support for personal web pages beyond establishing the initial account and providing server space. Students applying for web server space are expected to know how to generate their own pages and how to upload them to the server. NU does not support counters, forms or other server-side services for student web pages.

Guidelines

• Content and links referring directly or indirectly to illegal, pornographic or other inappropriate material are specifically prohibited. All pages will be reviewed regularly and any site deemed unacceptable by these guidelines will be removed.  The University reserves the right to remove any information published through its campus network if determined to be in violation of university policy, or not in the interest of the university.

• Students are responsible for their own web pages. This includes responsibility for avoiding copyright violations; complying with local, state, and federal laws. Copyright laws apply to electronic publishing as well as to print publishing. Be sure you have permission to publish the information, graphics, or photographs on your pages if you are not the author or creator.

• Some of the things you might want to put out on your own personal pages would be academic content such as research, your resume, photos of your family, pets, or vacations, etc.

• Things you should not put on your site are commercial/business endeavors and any inappropriate content or links.

• Students applying for web server space are expected to know how to generate their own pages and how to upload them to the server. NU does not support counters, forms or other server-side services for student web pages.

• Students are not allowed to run scripts or any server-side applications.

• Student web pages express the views and opinions of their author(s), who are solely responsible for their contents and do not represent official positions or policies of Niagara University.

• Student sites are not to exceed 15 megabytes of storage space.  Students needing additional space for academic reasons should contact webmaster@niagara.edu.

• Student sites will be purged without notice if a student is not enrolled.

• The eagles.niagara.edu server is bandwidth limited to make sure that the main Niagara University internet services and academic needs are protected.

• Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in sanctions, including loss of privileges and/or University disciplinary action.

Getting Started

• Login to myNU and click on the resource tab.  Under Information Technology, you'll see 'Configure Web Space'.  Click on that link.

• You will then review and agree to the guidelines for students web space.

• Once you agree to the terms and click the 'I Agree' button, your web space will be queued for creation.  This is done nightly.  Your web space will be available the following day and you will be e-mailed (this is sent to your NU e-mail account) instructions on logging in.

Using Your Web Space

• The student web server is eagles.niagara.edu.

• Access to your space is provided using the FTP File Transfer Protocol.

• Your FTP login information to the eagles.niagara.edu server is your PurplePass account.  For more information on the PurplePass, visit http://www.niagara.edu/it/purplepass/index.htm.

• Some options for editing web pages are Frontpage, Dreamweaver, and similar products.  These support FTP.  You may also upload your pages using an FTP client like WS_FTP or the Windows/Unix FTP client.