WELCOME to web8.cs.cornell.edu
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4, Apache v2

Using Executables on web8:

• cgi's can only be executed from your ~/public_html/cgi-bin directory.
• Executables must have one of the following extensions: .cgi .pl .php

• PHP will work from either your public_html or public_html/cgi-bin directory.

• Scripts run as user: apache

To access your files from our department unix/linux servers (setup via amd):
     cd /cucs/web/w8/[username]

To access your files from windows:
      \\web8\[username]\public_html

To access your files from a browser:
     www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~username

     www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~username/cgi-bin

In order to have your web8 page(s) viewed without the 'w8' in the http address, you need to create your own redirect in your windows 'myweb' directory. Our default department webserver is the windows IIS server.

NOTE: You cannot login to web8 directly. You must access your pages via the methods above.

NOTE: When the web site is accessed through www.cs.cornell.edu/w8, the apparent IP address will always be web1.cs.cornell.edu. The real client address is available in the HTTP_IPREMOTEADDR field in the HTTP request header.

Please submit a ticket for further requests for functionality of this site (including a mysql database creation).