SWE 432 PHP Deployment Instructions

13 October, 2011

All students of SWE 432 should have been given an account on the web application (Hermes) cluster. Your username and password are the same as your GMU email account. Please check your account and contact me immediately if you do not have an account on Hermes! More information is on the Frequently Asked Questions pages: http://labs.vse.gmu.edu/index.php/FAQ/.

Please do NOT ask the ITE systems staff for help learning PHP, debugging your program, or using ssh / sftp. Try to figure it out yourself and ask the instructor or the TA if you need help.

To deploy a PHP program on the Hermes cluster, you will need to do the following:

• If you are off campus, you will need to set up a VPN link to the Hermes cluster. Instructions and software to download can also be obtained from http://labs.vse.gmu.edu/index.php/FAQ. (For security reasons, port 8080 is only enabled for GMU students and faculty.)

  Once you have the VPN software installed on your computer, you can establish the link with your GMU mail ID and password.

• Login to the class's web apps server: hermes-web.vse.gmu.edu. Your username and password are the same as your GMU email. Note that this is a Unix computer, not windows.


• Use sftp to upload files from your computer to your account on hermes-web and ssh to log in.


• Once logged in, put your PHP files in the directory /data/hermes_web/USERNAME (where "USERNAME" is your username). Use the Unix command cp FILE /data/hermes_web/USERNAME (where "FILE" is the name of your file).

  You can create a symbolic link (shortcut) to this directory from your home directory: ln -s /data/hermes_web/USERNAME public_html

• The web address for the PHP and HTML files on the Hermes cluster is: http://hermes-web.vse.gmu.edu/. So if your PHP program is named hello.php and your username is gpburdell, the URL to your PHP program will be http://hermes-web.vse.gmu.edu/~gpburdell/hello.php.

  An example in my directory is http://hermes-web.vse.gmu.edu/~offutt/hello.php.

  For more PHP examples, please see the examples on the class websvse.

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