Department of Engineering

Web sites for research groups and projects

There are four ways for research groups and projects to set up and maintain their own web pages within the Department:

1. Have the pages hosted on the Department's 'Group Web Server', www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk. (This is the recommended option.) The server is maintained centrally, so all that the research group needs to do is to edit the pages. One or more members of the group can be given access to do this. If you would like to do this, please read the information on group web pages and then contact webadmin@eng.cam.ac.uk.
2. Run a Web server on a Unix system belonging to the research group. This is really suitable only for large groups with their own computing support and has been adopted by, for example, the MI group (http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/). See Creating and Maintaining a CUED WWW site for what to do next.
3. Have a single member of the group maintain the group's home page in their personal web directory on the Teaching System (accessed as http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/...) Other pages could be contained in other members' personal web directories. Although this is simple to set up, and may be useful for initial testing within your group, it is strongly discouraged as a permanent solution, for example because of problems caused when group members leave the Department.
4. The University offer a University Computing Service Managed Web Service (MWS) which offers PHP and mysql. Also look at the Falcon service and the Managed Wiki Service.

Producing material for the WWW provides general information about producing web pages.