OIT Help Desk
Sapphire Web Server Information
Obtaining a Sapphire Account:
All registered students receive a 20 MB Web account on the student
Web server named Sapphire for personal Web pages. You can access
your account using your Sycamore Login and Password.
Contact the Help Desk if you do not
have an account or it is not working properly.
Things you need to know about Sapphire:
- If you are using FrontPage from off campus, you can log in by clicking File, Open Web
Where is says "Web Name:" type https://sapphire.indstate.edu/~username
Username will be your username.
IMPORTANT: make sure you include the tilde ~ before your username
and an s after http or
your web will not open.
- Make sure to name your main page "index.html." If you are
missing an index page you may receive an error when viewing your Web
site.
- To view your page, go to the web site:
http://sapphire.indstate.edu/~username/name
of page.html
username= your own username
name of page=the name of your own page.
- Sapphire also accepts FTP and SSH connections. The server address
is: sapphire.indstate.edu
- Web pages should reside within the public_html directory.
- File names and links to file names are case sensitive.
For more assistance with Web Development please see:
CIRTs
Self-Study Tutorials on Web Development
More information on Sapphire is available at:
http://sapphire.indstate.edu
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