Personal Web Sites for Faculty, Staff, Departments, and Organizations

Welcome to webspace.ship.edu! Webspace.ship.edu is the new web server where Shippensburg University Faculty, Staff, Departments and Organizations may create personal websites.  The web server platform is Microsoft Internet Information Server.  Faculty and staff who are creating personal websites now have the ability to save their website files directly to a folder on their on-campus workstations.  In addition, departments and organizations may use a simple drag-and-drop FTP interface through Internet Explorer to save their website files.

Website Creation Instructions:

• Creating Personal Websites using On-Campus workstations
  • Save your website files in your T: drive in the folder named My Website

• Creating Personal Websites using Off-campus workstations
  • Use Internet Explorer to access  ftp://files.ship.edu
  • If you are using Internet Explorer 7, click on Page and Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer
  • Login with your SU email address and password
  • Save your files in the My Website folder

• Creating Department and Organization Websites using On-campus and Off-campus workstations
  • Use Internet Explorer to access  ftp://files.ship.edu
  • If you are using Internet Explorer 7, click on Page and Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer
  • Login with your department or organization’s SU email address and password.
  • Save your files in the My Website folder

• You may also use FTP or a web publishing utility, such as Dreamweaver to create or modify your website files
  • FTP server hostname:  files.ship.edu
  • Directory:  My Website
  • Use your SU email address and password
  • Click here for Dreamweaver configuration information

• Name your first website file: default.htm  

This is the file that will be displayed when your website is accessed.
Other valid default content page names are:  index.htm, index.html, default.asp, and default.aspx

• Your website will be accessible using a URL such as the following:
  • http://webspace.ship.edu/userid
    (userid is your SU email userid)