Centrally Provided Web Services

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Catalog Entry

Web — Central Web Hosting Services

Stanford’s web services are available free to University departments, officially recognized groups, and all members of the Stanford community who have a full-service SUNet ID. These services are part of the main campus computing infrastructure and are handled by a server called www.stanford.edu.

Information: University Web Services
Order: Request a SUNet ID
Order: Infrastructure Tools

Master List

Following is a list of the infrastructure and application services that make up Stanford’s centrally-provided Web Service managed and supported by the Information Technology Services department.

Infrastructure
- Core Services
  - WWW Servers
  - Load Distribution
  - Proxy Service (Virtual Host Service, Vanity URLs)
    (Proxies for Journals)
  - SSL (Secure Connection)
  - Log Dump and Analysis Service
  - Web Search is documented at google.stanford.edu
  - CGI Service
  - PHP in WWW (limited to /dept/its and homepage)
  - MySQL
  - Support Documentation
- Supporting Services
  - AFS
  - SSH (Publishing: File-transfer, sFTP)
  - Kerberos
  - WebAuth
  - Shibboleth
  - Directory and Workgroup Manager
  - Guest Accounts
Applications
- Centrally supported collaboration tools via installer at tools.stanford.edu:
  - Drupal (coming April 10th)
  - MediaWiki (coming April 10th)
  - WordPress (coming May 8th)
  - phpBB (coming May 8th)
- Movable Type
- PhpBB
- Stanford Web Forms Service
- Formage (unsupported)

Design & Development Consulting

The following groups provide guidance for departments planning to outsource the design, implementation, and/or maintenance of a web site running on a content management system (e.g., Drupal).