Web Infrastructure & Resources

Stanford’s centrally provided 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 web.stanford.edu. For a broader overview of web related services, visit the University Web Services page.

Features

Fancy Indexing
The server can generate directory listings for the directories that do not have an index.html file.
Server-Side Includes
You can add limited dynamic content to existing HTML documents.
Limiting Access
Limit access to your web pages at the network level and/or by password protection.
Secure connection
How to ensure the security of web pages that contain sensitive data.
Publishing
How to put your web pages onto the web.stanford.edu web servers.
Page Redirects
You can setup an automatic redirect for a page. For example, visitors requesting your old home page can be redirected to your new home page.
CGI Service
You can use the CGI service to provide dynamic content, collect and process user input, and generate visitor statistics.
MySQL Database Hosting

Designed for

Faculty, students, and staff

Requirements

A full-service SUNet ID.

Refer to the Minimum Web Standards resource for the requirements and recommendations for creation, hosting, management, and the decommissioning of web properties at Stanford.

Data security

May not be used with High Risk Data

Rates

Free of charge

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