How to Use Your University of Victoria Web Space

Because most students have no idea that it even exists…

“Computing Services allows personal homepages on web.uvic.ca. This web space can be used to host web pages, where owners can add and maintain content as well as set permissions. All faculty, staff, and students are allotted 1 GB of disk space, to be used either for email or web space. All computing usage at UVic, including personal web spaces, are subject to policy IM7200.”

Every student (regardless of faculty) is provided a web space at:

https://web.uvic.ca/~yourNetlinkID

note the tilde before yourNetlinkID: “~”

You can use it for simple file serving, like this, or you can put a full, rich webpage on it, like this.

Pretty decent, right? Too bad no-one knows how to use it…