What is web.illinois.edu?
Web.illinois.edu(cPanel) is the control system that lets you manage websites and databases hosted on the web.illinois.edu platform. cPanel offers a wide range of web hosting options to students, faculty, and staff, as well as offering easy collaboration with non-University partners through Google authentication. (However, the owner of a site must always be a person affiliated with the University.)
If you are not sure about the difference between Publish.illinois.edu(PIE) and web.illinois.edu (cPanel), here is the comparison of two systems.
Who can request a web.illinois.edu account?
1. General Users Account without Library IT Support
Please refer campus web.illinois.edu documentation.
2. Users with Library IT support: Support code, “library”
Ownership Requirement
Websites must have a current member of the University of Illinois Library as an owner. The website owner can grant web hosting account permissions to the other University of Illinois affiliated faculty, students or staff and can also request access for non-Illinois affiliated collaborators. Ownership can be transferred to a currently affiliated person. If the website owner has left Illinois and there are no other currently affiliated website maintainers, the site will be removed. (Campus cPanel policy)
2. Requirement for Support
You must provide the support code, “library” if your site would like to receive the support from Library IT.
3. Domain Name Support
Difference between publish.illinois.edu and web.illinois.edu account
| Criteria | publish.illinois.edu(PIE) | web.illinois.edu (cPanel) |
|---|---|---|
| Content creation | WordPress only | Your choice of plain HTML, WordPress, Drupal, other content management systems, database-driven sites, and/or programming-driven sites. |
| Templates and themes | Only specific pre-created templates and themes can be used | Your choice of either pre-created or custom-built templates and themes |
| Responsibility for security patching and maintenance | Largely centrally managed. | Many offerings allow automatic patching, but some systems may need your manual patch attention. If you use a custom code on cPanel, you will need to take responsibility for your custom code’s security as well. |
| Group site ownership | One option: Shared ownership of a WordPress site | Multiple options: Site ownership can be shared either at the cPanel level or at the individual website level. |
| Multiple websites per domain | Not available | If your group needs (for example) a WordPress-based news site, a Drupal-based research data-driven site, a GitLab-based code repository, and a PHP-based community forum all within the umbrella of yourgroup.web.illinois.edu, cPanel makes it possible. |
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Policy for web.illinois.edu Account
Library IT Policy
Acquiring an Amazon Web Services(AWS) cPanel account/service conveys no implicit commitment by Library or University IT to develop, support, troubleshoot, or maintain the content you choose to deploy to your AWS cPanel site. If you need any support for creating or maintaining a cPanel account, please contact Library IT directly at help@library.illinois.edu or call the help desk at 217 244-4688 The Support request will be reviewed and prioritized by Library Administration. Additional details with regards to this, including links to the relevant documents and forms, will be included in the first email reply you will receive upon submitting this form.
Campus IT policy
Appropriate use policy: Websites hosted at web.illinois.edu must abide by the campus computer appropriate use policy. See also the Easy Guide to the Appropriate Use Policy.
Website owner responsibility: It is the responsibility of the website owner to follow good web security practices. This includes but isn’t limited to: keeping content management system software such as WordPress updated; removing websites no longer in use; restricted access to content where appropriate; reporting possible compromises immediately to security@illinois.edu
FERPA and HIPAA data: web.illinois.edu created from cPanel account is not an approved platform for FERPA or HIPAA data