Development Environment
Servers
These servers collectively form CSE's web development environment:
| Role | Hostname | Virtual Hostname | Description | Namesake | OS | Server Software |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web server (development) | cheshire.cse.buffalo.edu | https://www-student.cse.buffalo.edu Serves personal websites in format: |
Dedicated web server that provides students with access to advanced web functionality without compromising the stability of the main departmental web server. Allows interactive logins so students can examine web server log files, kill off runaway scripts, etc. | Cheshire Cat | CentOS | Apache HTTP Server |
| Web server (production) | jeeves.cse.buffalo.edu |
Serves personal websites in format: |
Production web server that needs to be as reliable and highly-available as possible, so its web server configuration does not allow student websites to host anything other than static HTML files. Disallows interactive logins. | Reginald Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's butler (a famous fictional 'server') | CentOS | Apache HTTP Server |
| Database server (development) | tethys.cse.buffalo.edu | N/A | MySQL server. | Tethys (Mythology) | FreeBSD | MySQL |
| Database server (production) | postel.cse.buffalo.edu | N/A | MySQL server. | Jon Postel | FreeBSD | MySQL |
| Home directory server | mercury.cse.buffalo.edu | N/A | Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device. | Mercury (Mythology) | CentOS | N/A |
Home Directory
Both web servers serve web content that you have placed in your ~/public_html directory. Your home directory is not local on either web server. Your home directory is hosted on our departmental network-attached storage (NAS) device.
Authentication
You may login to www-student with your UBIT credentials, because we've delegated authentication to the UBIT Kerberos service.
Directory Layout
The /web filesystem that's mounted on every other departmental machine is not accessible from this machine. www-student has its own local /web filesystem.
References
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