Enabling Your Student Web Space
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Neither UMBC nor DoIT will take responsibility for the security or integrity of files stored in areas where the www.swe_web AFS user has read or write access. We also ask that any user asking for "input" on web forms that store data in those areas make it clear that any information entered on such forms is stored using an insecure method.
Acceptable Use
The Student Web environment is maintained for instructional purposes. As mentioned in the Policy for Responsible Computing, use of UMBC systems for commercial purposes is not allowed. We reserve the right to remove any content that interferes with the instructional mission of the Student Web Environment or attempts to access content outside of your own home volume.
We reserve the right to make significant changes to the Student Web Environment that may cause your older web content to no longer function as you intended. For this and other reasons the Student Web Environment should not be used to host long term content. That said, we will do our best to minimize changes to the Student Web Environment during the academic year.
Any of the above activities will be considered a violation of Student Web Environment acceptable use and may result in one or more of the following acitons:
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For more information please refer to the Policy for Responsible Computing
Available Scripting Languages
| Language | File Extension | How To Use |
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| PHP 5.4 | .php | Any content in a file ending in .php will be interpreted by PHP |
| Perl 5.16 | .cgi | Begin the file with "#!/usr/bin/perl". All content below that line will be interpreted by Perl |
| Python 2.7.5 | .cgi | Begin the file with "#!/usr/bin/python". All content below that line will be interpreted by Python |
| Ruby 2.0 | .cgi | Begin the file with "#!/usr/bin/ruby". All content below that line will be interpreted by Ruby |
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