Welcome to the Cornell Stack!

This page is designed to walk you through some of the features and areas of your Cornell Stack VM and space.

Suggestions are always appreciated, so please let us know if there is material that is unclear, could be improved, or additions that we should make to this page. Thank you!

Getting Started

Hosting Dashboard and Instance Splash page

• Once your Hosting Virtual Machine (VM) has been created and instance(s) set up, you can access information and the VM from the Hosting Dashboard via https://dashboard.hosting.cornell.edu. This is a one stop shop to controlling services on your VM (yes you can stop and start your instances), as well as finding specific information about your instance(s). The Hosting Dashboard should list all VM's you have access to based on the AD Group or Permit that's been assigned to them.
• Once you've logged into the Hosting Dashboard, and you find the VM that you were assigned, if you click on that VM name (should look like webhost###.serverfarm.cornell.edu), the dashboard takes you to the Status page of that VM. This shows you what services are running, and this is where you can stop/start/restart/configtest Apache and/or Coldfusion.
  
• At the bottom of the Status Page there are "Quick" links to the instances created on the VM. These are links to the Splash page of each instance(s) and any virtual hosts that have been configured for those instances.
  
• Instance Splash Pages contain important information for that specific instance. Remember, virtual machines could be running several instances, and each instance could be serving out different websites, and potentially running different software (some with coldfusion, some not). Splash page shows you (these will vary depending on what you request to have activated on each instance):
  • The Instance name
  • Tabs to the Hosting pages, Logs, and Status page (service control)
  • Path to the Home directory/document_root that Apache is configured for
  • Webdav URL to use to upload your files
  • Services enabled for this instance
  • The userID running the instance (very important for separation of services/access permissions: see HERE for more information)
  • Dot "." access file editor: used to modify .htaccess and .wdaccess files
  • PHPShell - provides Shell-like access to the VM (there are limitations)
  • Links to log files
  • Apache server status
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• • Webdav