People

Welcome to the People site. This site will serve as a guide for the migration to the new web server.

Moving Your Site

Quotas

If you have previously requested more than the default 20MB storage space on Grace, that request will not transfer over to Gibson.
Fill out the ITS account modification form
Turn this form into the help desk. They are located in the Frank E. Gannett Building (7B), room 1113, or fax it to 475-7884.

Transfer your files

Download an SFTP client if you do not already have one. Free SFTP Clients: Fetch (For Macs) and WinSCP (For Windows)
Copy files from the grace.rit.edu server to your computer.
Use the information on the Uploading Files page to transfer files to gibson.rit.edu
Copy files from your computer to the gibson.rit.edu server.

Set file permissions

For security purposes, all files are given 700 file permissions by default when uploaded to the server. To change the default permissions that uploaded files are given see the file permissions guide.
Scripts should be 700 (Read, Write, Execute for User Only)
All other files and directories should be changed to 755 (Read, Write, Execute for User; Read and Execute for Group and World)

Delete mapToGrace file

Delete from www directory OR
Go to https://start.rit.edu/ShellPrefs/ and checking 'Enable Site'.
Your new http://people.rit.edu/user_name address should become active at the top of the hour. Until then you can access your site via http://people.rit.edu/~user_name.

Fix/update code and check links

In the old web environment URLs which were misspelled or had the wrong case still worked. However, http://people.rit.edu is case sensitive and all links must be spelled correctly. For more information and instructions on how to reenable this feature, visit Getting Started.
All .php3 files will need their file extension changed to .php. Some PHP variables will also need to be updated.
Check all links on your site to make sure they go to the right page. All absolute links and links to .php3 files will need to be updated. Your text editor's find & replace function will make this easier.
Go to 'Migrating Your Site' on the Getting Started page to find out more.

Add your site to the people directory (optional)