Obtaining Web Space on the Faculty Web Server

Obtain an Official University E-mail Account

As a first step, you need to have a StagWeb or Microsoft Exchange e-mail account for the following reasons:

• The procedures to obtain a University e-mail account ensure that you are currently a member of the Fairfield University community and thus entitled to space for a personal home page.
• The application process for your e-mail account requires you to sign your name, indicating your agreement to the computer guidelines for Fairfield University, and it provides you with your own copy of these guidelines.
• Your web account username is generated to be identical to your e-mail account.

Once you have an e-mail account, the procedure is quite simple:

• Send an e-mail to Computing & Network Services (cns@mail.fairfield.edu) from your e-mail account giving your full name as well as your e-mail user name. (Do not send your password.)
• You will receive a single folder on the faculty web server, having your username as its name.
• Requesters will be notified via their e-mail account when their user account and web folder have been created.

Within three business days of receipt of your e-mail, you should receive an e-mail message from Computing & Network Services with the following information:

• Your Faculty Web Server username, its temporary password, and instructions on how to change the password;
• The name of your web folder and the full URL address at which your site can be accessed;
• Information on FTP, the protocol that's used for moving your finished web pages from your computer to the web server;
• Contact information for CNS staff members who provide instructional support and can work with you to get your web pages correctly coded and transferred to the server.