Students and employees can set up a personal website on the web hosting platform users.ugent.be.

Conditions

In order to display web pages correctly on our platform, there are a few conditions regarding naming:

• Give the home page the file name index.html (or index.htm), otherwise visitors to your personal website will see a list of all the files in the folder, which is obviously not what you want.
• All file names are case sensitive.
• Dynamic content (such as scripting with PHP or Perl) is not permitted on this web hosting platform. If you do copy PHP files to your web space, for example, their entire content will be displayed as plain text. In short, if your project requires scripting, employees better request a web share.

Copying files to your web space

Connect to the network drive of your personal web space (W:) and copy the files for your website to this web space. Copying files from your own computer to a network drive is similar to copying files between two folders on the same computer.

Test your website

Have you created at least one index.html (or index.htm) file and transferred it to the network drive of your personal web space? If so, you can view your website at the following URL: https://users.ugent.be/~loginnaam.