Technical Specifications

Currently, the NYU Web server is part of our Sun 15K cluster. The machine has 8 processors, 16GB of memory and 600GB of disk space. We run the Apache webserver, version 2.2.

We have the capacity to enable our webmasters for cgiwrap to run scripts using Perl as well as PHP (after a review of their project proposal). We can provide access to a MySQL database and Web-based access through PHPMyAdmin. SSI and SSL can be used. SCP may be used to transfer files as well as SFTP. Note, we do not support regular FTP.

Installed Software

* This version of php is "locked-down" for security purposes (safe mode). We don't display any error messages, register_globals is turned off, and file uploads via the $_FILES[] global array are disabled.

We cannot provide access to the main error logs.

Microsoft FrontPage software attempts to provide CGI functionality through the use of "extensions", which must be installed on a Web server. The extensions are insecure and can be exploited to hijack, or otherwise compromise the performance and data-integrity of the server. For this reason, FrontPage extensions are not available on the NYU Web server.