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Publishing on Monash web servers

What is a web server?

A Web server is software installed on a machine to facilitate the delivery of web pages to web browsers.

Monash has many web servers. This is partly for historical reasons, partly for ease of administration, and partly to enable serving different types of documents.

Web page categories

  • Official Monash pages
  • Personal pages (Staff, Student and Student Groups)
  • Electronic journals
  • Pages for special interest groups (other groups affiliated with Monash)

Official Monash pages

Each organisational unit or group (e.g. faculty, department or centre) has an area on a web server to store their web files. Most group's pages are stored on the ITS web server cluster, although some use other web servers.

Each area is managed by the group's webmaster, so if you want to have a page included in your group's area then you need to contact the relevant webmaster to arrange this.

Your webmaster will need to agree that your pages are appropriate for the official Monash web tree and will then organise for your pages to be placed on the web. Your Webmaster's contact details should be available from your Faculty or unit's web page or from the webmasters' list provided by ITS.

Personal pages

Staff members and postgraduate students can obtain an account which will enable them to publish personal web pages on the ITS personal web cluster (sng). You may also be able to publish personal web pages from a Faculty or Department based web server. All personal web pages are subject to the Electronic Access Policy for Staff (under development).

A personal website must carry a disclaimer, which states that the website is not authorised by Monash University and that any opinions expressed on the pages are those of the staff member and not those of the University.

Pages may also be published from yoyo, a 'general access' machine maintained by IT students.

If you have an account which you are unsure about, you can check with the ITS Service Desk.

How to get an account

If you do not have such an account you can obtain one in one of the following ways:

  • Staff members and post graduate students can apply to ITS for an account on sng . Contact ITS Service Desk for an application form.
  • Many undergraduate students are allocated Unix-based accounts when it is specifically required for their course work.
  • All Monash staff and students are welcome to apply for accounts on the student-run yoyo service. For details see the Obtaining an account on yoyo page.
  • Student groups can also publish their WWW pages from yoyo. See yoyo's Group Accounts for Monash Clubs and Societies page for more information.

Depending on which account you obtain, you can follow the Monash web publishing instructions, or the instructions for creating a yoyo home page.

If you have a number of ITS unix-based accounts, then you need to be aware that there is an order of precedence given to the machines, which is:

  1. sng
  2. aurora
  3. ccds
  4. linux
  5. engds

You must place your web files on the machine which comes first in the list, or at least a symbolic link to there from your real area. (For example: ln -s /cc/alst/com/your_id/WWW /cc/student/com/your_id/WWW )

Electronic Journals

Scholarly journals published by or under the auspices of Monash are welcome on elecpress.monash.edu.au. Contact the ITS Web Team for more information about publishing an electronic journal.

Special Interest Groups

Other groups affiliated with Monash may be able to have their pages published on a Monash web server. Contact the ITS Web Team for more information.