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Personal Pages✯

This page explains how to manage your personal web page on the new personal pages server perso.[isima|limos].fr (both perso.isima.fr and perso.limos.fr point to the same server at 193.55.95.57).

Personal pages are currently available for professors, students, and staff.

For students, personal pages exist only for the duration of their studies at ISIMA. No redirection is provided after graduation.

Authentication is always performed using your UCA login/password.

SSH access to this machine is only possible after connecting to the VPN

Connecting✯

ssh username@perso.isima.fr
or

ssh username@perso.limos.fr

On Windows 10, you can also use SSH directly (usually enabled by default; otherwise, see here).

Your home directory contains the contents of your personal space (dirs).

You can also manage your personal page via ownCloud

To have a personal page, you must have a public_html directory in your home, which is created automatically, with the following permissions:

drwxr-xr-x
user: username
group: grppersoapache
name: public_html

Any file (especially HTML files) in this public_html directory is accessible at https://perso.isima.fr/~username and https://perso.limos.fr/~username.

A default public_html/index.html file has been created, which you can replace with your own index page.

Note that you must choose an official URL for your personal page; otherwise, it will be invisible in Google search results.

Choosing the official URL for your personal page (to be indexed by search engines)✯

Google de-indexes (makes invisible in search results) pages with duplicate content.

You must choose the official URL for your personal page: either https://perso.isima.fr/~username OR https://perso.limos.fr/~username.

This is controlled by the public_html/.htaccess file, which is also created automatically. By default, the official URL is https://perso.isima.fr/~username, and the public_html/.htaccess file contains:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^perso.limos.fr$
RewriteRule (.*) https://perso.isima.fr%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

To set the official URL to https://perso.limos.fr/~username, modify public_html/.htaccess as follows:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^perso.isima.fr$
RewriteRule (.*) https://perso.limos.fr%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

The unused URL will always redirect to the official address.

Changing the official URL for your personal page (do not use my username)✯

If you do not want to use your username for the official URL of your personal page, send your username and your new-username-you-have-chosen by opening a ticket at https://support.isima.fr/

  • Category: "Services" > Subcategory: "Personal Page" > Title: "Vanity URL for personal page"
  • Specify your username and the one you want for the official URL
  • Also specify if you want to keep the '~' prefix in the URL

Vanity URLs are reserved for permanent staff.

Updating my personal page✯

To update your personal page, you can:

Using a CMS for your personal pages✯

A static site does not require any updates on your part. A dynamic site does!

  • For security reasons, we recommend not using a CMS to maintain your personal page.
  • If you really want a CMS, consider DokuWiki or Grav, which do not use databases
  • If you absolutely need a CMS with a database, send a well-justified request to https://support.isima.fr/
    • Category: "Services" > Subcategory: "Personal Page" > Title: "CMS with database for personal page"

Setting up a redirection✯

  • To automatically redirect visitors and search engines to your new personal page from the old one, leave only the following public_html/.htaccess file on the old personal page at fc.isima.fr:
Redirect 301 /~old-username https://perso.isima.fr/~username

  • Replace https://perso.isima.fr with https://perso.limos.fr if this is the domain you chose as the official URL for your personal page.

  • Replace username with new-username-you-have-chosen if you changed the official URL of your personal page.

Please double-check all redirections carefully.

Add the following line to your public_html/.htaccess:

Header always unset X-Frame-Options

Support✯

https://support.isima.fr/

  • Category: "Services" > Subcategory: "Personal Page"