Systems and Operations

Secureweb

Secureweb is a service provided to the JMU community by IT for the purposes of publishing web pages that require encryption for the transmission of sensitive data, or for publishing to a restricted audience that must authenticate before viewing the pages.

• Obtaining access for publishing on Secureweb: Please fill out an Information Publisher's Agreement
  
  
• If you are publishing for personal pages you have one userid for FTPing files to the server. Your electronic ID and password is whatever was chosen at the time you applied for access.
  (Note: FTP access for file transfer is NOT allowed from off-campus)
  
  
• If you are publishing JMU department or Organizational pages, you have two userids -- one for your personal pages, and one for department pages.The Department userid will be the userid-deptname. If you are publishing for several departments you will have a separate userid for each department.The passwords for your multiple userids are likely the same unless you specifically chose to maintain them separately at the time you applied for the account.
  
  
• When FTPing files you will automatically be placed in the appropriate directory for the department, or personal pages. You may create files and/or subdirectories within that directory as you like. You will not be able to change directory outside of your "tree." Therefore, you must login using each different userid or you will not be in the proper directory.
  
  
• Files that you place in the directory should automatically be set with the proper permissions for your web browser to be able view them.
  
  
• By default an ".htaccess" file will be placed in your directory that restrict viewing to anyone with valid JMU electronic userid/password. The file may be modified to restrict to only certain users, certain network subnets, etc. If this file is removed or renamed, anyone in the world can see the files (which is only appropriate if your purpose is encryption of sensitive data from anyone in the world -- such as Credit card information, etc). Some examples are in the file so you can see some of the options.
  
  
• If you forget your password, please go to the helpdesk and ask to have your password for your Secureweb account reset. Make sure you say Secureweb, or you may get your password changed on the main webserver instead!