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Every LAMP hosting site starts out with a directory structure much like this:

admin/

This is the "administration" area of your site. It is restricted via CU WebAuth to the permit created for you when your instance is created, and to the CIT LAMP support staff's permit. Currently it contains a couple of utilities designed to make managing your LAMP site easier.

phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is one of the most popular browser-based MySQL management programs. You can do pretty much anything from phpMyAdmin that you could do from any other MySQL management application. Some administrative actions, such as creating a new database, are permissions-restricted for security reasons; otherwise, you should have full access to edit and maintain the database that is provided for you when your instance is created.

Documentation and information about phpMyAdmin is available at their website. Any additional questions or database requests should be sent to the DBA team.

wdaccesseditor

This is a utility for editing and configuring any CUWebAuth or Apache-based access control file on your site. It also provides an example/template of the access control directives for using CUWebAuth to control permissions to your site.

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cgi-bin/

This is the legacy traditional cgi-bin directory for placement of Perl or Python CGI scripts. There are two example CGI scripts available from the splash page to provide environment information and to provide a quick "getting started" example.

styles/

This is the stylesheet directory for the Cornell Identity styles as provided from the Visual Identity Site. They are used as part of the splash page, though you of course are free to add your own, use a different style or remove the directory entirely.

index.php

The default index file in your document root is the splash/information page you see when you visit your staging URL provided at account creation. This page is full of links and information for using the environment, getting more help and documentation, and to provide information about your instance and its configuration.

If you do not plan on using CGI it is strongly recommended that you delete this folder/directory

Getting connected to upload content

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When you are ready to add or move additional URLs like yoursite.cornell.edu to point at your site, please submit a request to webservices-l, with at least a day or two of notice to ensure that we have time to coordinate DNS moves and configuration updates. If you are moving an existing URL, the more notice you can provide, the better.

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