Getting a web server account

Your organization can get a free web site off of the CSUC web server. To apply for an organization web page, you must first be recognized by the University Student Activities Office as a student organization.

To confirm that your organization is recognized, see the Student Activities Office alphabetical list.

Verify that your organization is listed. If your organization is not listed, contact the Student Activities office located at BMU 213 (phone 898-5396/email: saogeneral@csuchico.edu) and ask them how to get your organization recognized.

Assuming that you have verified that your organization is recognized, you will need a faculty/staff member to sponsor you. Usually this is your faculty advisor. Once you have a faculty/staff sponsor, fill out the online application.

Rules and Regulations

Any web pages that you publish on the CSUC web server are expected to follow the CSU, Chico web guidelines.

They are also expected to follow the University Writing Style Guide.

How to publish to your account

Once you have designed and created your organization's web page on your home computer or in one of the on-campus open-access computer labs, you can publish it to your organization's account using any FTP application.

If you use Netscape Communicator to create the page, you can publish directly from Communicator. Classes are available from Student Computing on how to create web pages by hand-coding the HTML or using Netscape Communicator as a graphical editor. For a list of classes and availability, browse to Student Computing workshops.

The location to ftp to is: www.csuchico.edu

NOTE: even though your login name on the web server may be the same as your email login name, the accounts are not connected. If you change your email password, it will NOT change your password on the web server.

It is possible for more than one person in an organization to have access to publish to an organization web page without sharing accounts (just apply for a second web server account and specify the same organization name).

When you first connect with FTP to the web server, you will not be in your organization's directory. You need to change into the /m3/webdocs/orgname (where orgname is your organization's abbreviated name that you received in the confirmation email) directory. You can then publish in that location.

Don't forget to change the UNIX file permissions on anything that you upload so that it is visible on the web. (Telnet to www.csuchico.edu, change into your organization's directory by typing "cd /m3/webdocs/orgname" and change the permissions by typing "chmod 755 *".)

Once you have published your organization's web page, you can view it at: http://www.csuchico.edu/orgname