Every website needs a domain name to identify it (e.g. www.gatech.edu), but not all domain names are equal. The following attempts to demystify domain names and help you select the best name for your new website.
Georgia tech owns the entire *.gatech.edu domain space, and so you can request names within this space at no charge to your unit. However, there are differences in names, and new rules coming into effect that you need to consider.
This page details upcoming web development related conferences for the upcoming 2018 calendar year.
The most common approach for adding Central Authentication Service (CAS) support to a custom stand-alone PHP application is through the phpCAS Library. As of mid 2017, the most recent version was phpCAS 1.3.5. Note: If you are using an earlier version you should upgrade as soon as possible to obtain the latest security patches.
From Wikipedia (Central Authentication Service):
Some Georgia Tech units may offer locally managed web servers for hosting locally managed websites and web applications – check with your unit's information technology support staff to see what is available to your unit. A stand-alone web server can be useful for larger web applications that need more resources than a shared hosting account (such as an OIT Web Hosting account) can offer. In virtually all cases, however, you would not need a stand-alone web server for any standard content management system like Drupal or WordPress.
Prior to late 2016, OIT always set up a Sympa mailing list whenever it set up a web hosting account, and the 'hosting.gatech.edu' site automatically managed the membership of that mailing list, syncing the hosting account's administrators and owners to the mailing list.
Getting started using the Sass preprocessor is easy, provided you have experience with command-line interface tools.
The recommended setup for writing Sass on campus is:
The Ruby Sass release and Compass.app have been deprecated or phased out.
Anyone who is running their own instances of WordPress that they fully administer themselves (this doesn't include people maintaining sites on Professional Web Presence), should make sure they are running a comprehensive security plugin like WordFence to monitor and protect their WordPress instance from cyber attacks. WordPress sites are popular attack vectors, especially ones that rank well in the major search engines.
This page details upcoming web development related conferences for the 2017 calendar year.
We also have a page for the 2018 calendar year.
Important: Only the Web Hosting site owner (and OIT) can add or remove Web Hosting site administrators, and only OIT can change a Web Hosting site's owner.
To grant or revoke access for another person to access your OIT Web Hosting site's Plesk control panel, an owner of the site should do the following: