Persönliche Homepage

If you have a personal account as an employee of LRZ, TUM, LMU, or Hochschule München, you may create a personal homepage.

Important: This type of hosting is primarily geared towards personal pages of individuals, for example to promote their own scientific activities. Limitations of this service:

• domain name always ends in ".userweb.mwn.de"
• static HTML content only, using PHP is not possible
• storage space more limited than in LRZ Web Hosting service
• non-transferable to other individuals.

If you do not see an option to create a homepage in the IdM Portal, your account is not eligible for this service.

Setting up

To set up a personal homepage, log in to the Identity Management Portal (abbrev. "IdM Portal") with your personal account. Select your personal account in the portal's menu in the section "Self-Service", then click on the tab "Homepage". After you request your personal homepage, the homepage is set up automatically, but it might take a few minutes until it is available. Your homepage will then be available at the following URL:

    http://<desiredname>.userweb.mwn.de/

<desiredname> is a name that you may choose yourself. It should consist only of lower-case letters, numbers, and the minus character ("-").

You may choose to add aliases to your homepage. This can also be accomplished using the "Homepage" tab in the IdM Portal.

Editing your site

After creation of your homepage, there will be an initial file named index.html. To fill your site with content, you need to create files and upload them to the site.

Connecting and Upload

You can transfer your files from your computer to the webserver using a data transfer program like FileZilla (for Windows, Linux and Mac) oder WinSCP (for Windows). We recommend using one of the SCP, SFTP or FTPS protocolls, because passwords and data are encrypted during transmission.

The target host for all protocolls ist ftp.lrz.de. Use your personal account account as user name.

Your personal homepage has a home directory in on an NFS volume (Network file storage). At ftp.lrz.de the path is:

   /nfs/web_user/www/<x>/<account>/

With <account> being your account name and <x> its last character. Example:

   /nfs/web_user/www/p/mu73zop/

Within the home directory, the folder "webserver/htdocs/" hold the files for the website.  Examples:

• "http://my-home.userweb.mwn.de/" corresponds to:
  • relative path:   webserver/htdocs/index.html
  • absolute path:   /nfs/web_user/www/p/mu73zop/webserver/htdocs/index.html
• "http://my-home.userweb.mwn.de/kontakt.html" entspricht:
  • relative path:   webserver/htdocs/kontakt.html
  • absolute path:   /nfs/web_user/www/p/mu73zop/webserver/htdocs/kontakt.html

Technical notes

• To avoid problems you should use only lowercase characters and avoid spaces or special characters.

• If possible, transmit your files in binary mode, as "ASCII mode" can modify your files.

• Personal homepages can use .htaccess for configuration, for example to set up a password protection for directories. You can find more information and examples at https://doku.lrz.de/x/HQB-AQ.

Encryption

Is is possible, or may even be mandatory, that your personal homepage can only be visited via an encrypted connection. Encrypted connections are already enabled. Your personal homepage ist always available by using HTTPS.

   https://<wunschname>.userweb.mwn.de/  (note the "s" in "https")

The article  "Konfigurationsbeispiele mit .htaccess" has instructions on how to force an encrypted connection. (The method show in the IdM Portal is not used anymore.)

Deleting your personal homepage

If you do not need your personal homepage anymore, you can delete it with all the files in the IdM Portal. Choose the option "Completely delete homepage" on the "Homepage" tab of your personal account to do this.