Personal Sites at Mason

Personal web sites for students, faculty, and staff are setup on the Mason Cluster. Faculty and staff members can also set up sites on the Faculty Web and the Gunston server, which has some additional capabilities.

General Information

You have a limited amount of space assigned to your Mason Cluster account; about 3.5 mb if you have very little saved mail. HTML code is basically a text file and does not take up much space, but pictures (files with extensions .gif and .jpg) DO take up a lot of space.

For instructions on where and how to create a directory for your web page on the Mason Cluster (mason.gmu.edu or osf1.gmu.edu), please go to Creating the Directories to Put Webpages on the Masoncluster system.

Instructions on transferring files to your home directory on the Mason Cluster, can be found on the ITU Support webpages and the Student and Faculty technology guides under "How to get/install/use the Secure Shell (including Secure FTP)".

About the Mason Cluster

The Mason Cluster is composed of 2 UNIX DEC Alpha servers: osf1.gmu.edu (otherwise known as mason1.gmu.edu) and mason2.gmu.edu. The Mason Cluster is running the Apache HTTP web server.

Only HTML is supported on the Mason Cluster. CGI is not enabled.

Account Eligibility

All registered students, faculty, classified and part-time staff, and authorized guests are eligible for Mason cluster accounts. Status as a student must be verifiable through the Registrar's Office; status as an employee, including all eligible faculty positions, must be verifiable through Human Resources.

Guest accounts are granted on a case-by-case basis as deemed appropriate by ITU to meet the needs of the university. A sponsoring George Mason University faculty member or Mason employee must submit a Guest account request in writing to the director of ITU - Central & Distributed Systems.

Employees of university contractors are eligible for accounts on a case-by-case basis as necessary to complete work for theuniversity.