SISLTweb

All of the SISLT sites and applications remaining on iats-coe1.missouri.edu have been moved to the SISLT server.

Beginning late January we will start moving SISLT properties off the College’s server coe3.missouri.edu and onto SISLT’s server.  We’ll be contacting account owners to arrange a time that works with everyone’s schedule.  If you’d like to be at the top of the move list please let us know! Email SISLTWeb

The old College of Education server iats-coe1.missouri.edu was taken offline December 26, 2008.  All of the SISLT sites and applications hosted on iats-coe1.missouri.edu have been moved to SISLT’s server or the College’s new server coe3.missouri.edu.

If you’re unsure if your site has been moved, or where it currently lives, email us and we’ll help you figure it out.

Some of you may be getting an unexpected error after uploading php files to the server and trying to access them from the web, this is suPHP in action.  suPHP is a piece of security software that prevents hackers from uploading a php script to your site and running that script under your URL.  There have been a few instances of this in the past, mostly advertising pharmaceuticals. However, this type of attack could be used for more nefarious purposes such as stealing user names and passwords from unsuspecting MU people.  It’s easy enough to make a site look like an MU site, but if a phisher can upload their code to our server, and run it under one of our URLs, users have no way of knowing that this is not a real MU site.

In short, suPHP makes our sites a little safer.

Using suPHP, however, means that any php files on the server must be owned by the same account as the www directory they are being served from.  For instance if I upload a php file to the SISLTweb www directory then that file needs to be owned by the same account that owns the www directory, in this case sisltweb.missouri.edu.  This means that you will have to watch out for file permission and ownership issues with your php files.

The best and easiest way to upload files to the server is using a Windows share.  You just need to create a connection to your account’s share and then drag and drop your files into the share, doing so will automatically set the correct owner and permissions.  You can connect to your account’s share by going to: \\sislt-tc1.missouri.edu\[domain name] and logging in with your PawPrint and password.  For more detailed instructions please see the Connecting to a Window’s Share on the SISLT Server article.

Our new server is up and running, with the first account (sisltweb.missouri.edu) added this morning.

We’ll be working with SISLT faculty, staff and students over the comming months to get accounts moved off of the CoE servers.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us.

• Ruby Gems
• CPAN
• PEAR
• Tomcat
• MySQL 5
• Subversion
• Apache
• Sendmail (send only)
• SSh (locked to campus IPs)
• Oracle client
• LDAP

• PHP5
• Perl
• Ruby
• Python
• Java

How to request a Fortify review:

1. Send an email to sisltweb@missouri.edu asking to have your code reviewed.
2. Provide a copy of your code to SISLTweb (zip file).
3. A report of possible security vulnerabilities will be provided to, which SISLTweb will be happy to go over with you.

How to request an AppSacn review:

1. Send an email to sisltweb@missouri.edu asking to have your site scanned by AppScan.
2. SISLTweb will contact DoIT to setup a meeting to discuss details of your site and to obtain access to your site (if required).
3. DoIT will provide you with a report of possible security vulnerabilities, which SISLTweb will be happy to go over with you.

How to request a new database:

1. Send an email to sisltweb@missouri.edu asking to have a new database created, include the name of the account and the name and PawPrint Id of the owner. Unless specified a new database user will also be created using the name of the new database with “_user” appended. If you would like certain people to have access to the database, as opposed to access for a web application, please include the PawPrint Id of these people.
2. SISLTweb will contact you once the account has been created, depending on when the account is requested this may take up to two business days.

How to request a new database user:

1. Have the database owner send an email to sisltweb@missouri.edu asking to have a new user created for the database. Please include the name of the database and the database user name you would like created. If this is a database user account for a specific person, as opposed to access for a web application, please include the PawPrint Id of the person for whom you would like the database user account created.
2. SISLTweb will contact you once the account has been created, depending on when the account is requested this may take up to two business days.

How to request a new domain name (sub-domain of missouri.edu):

1. Send an email to sisltweb@missouri.edu asking to have a new sub-domain created, include the full domain name you would like (sislt.missouri.edu), the account on the new domain name should point to, and the name and PawPrint Id of the account owner. Please include the purpose of the site that will be using the domain name.
2. SISLTweb will contact you once the domain has been created, depending on when the domain is requested this may take up to two business days (longer during the beginning of a semester).

How to request a new domain name (mydomain.com):

1. Send an email to sisltweb@missouri.edu asking to have a new sub-domain created, include the full domain name you would like (mydomain.com), the account on the new domain name should point to, and the name and PawPrint Id of the account owner. Please include the purpose of the site that will be using the domain name.
2. SISLTweb will contact you once the domain has been created, depending on when the domain is requested this may take up to two business days (longer during the beginning of a semester).

How to request a user account:

1. Send an email to sisltweb@missouri.edu asking to have a new account created, include the name of the account and the name and PawPrint Id of the owner, and PawPrint Ids of anyone who should have access to the account.
2. SISLTweb will contact you once the account has been created, depending on when the account is requested this may take up to two business days (longer during the beginning of the semester).