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On July 28, 2023, the PHP Scripts web server will be retired as a service. This change aligns with the retirement of the PASS service upon which it depends to store web content.
ACTION: Please migrate your data to another platform before July 28. You can review the recommended options to replace PASS-based web hosting features on Choosing Your PASS Alternative.
The Web server, php.scripts.psu.edu, is the rollout of a dynamic Web content service designed for use by students,
staff, faculty, departments, courses, and student organizations who use
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
technology. Information, guidelines and resources for using this
service follow below.
NOTE: The Database
Course-Related Service is currently a separate service. These
services may be combined in a subsequent phase of this rollout.
General Guidelines and Information
The service is available to all Penn State students, staff and
faculty with Personal Web
space, colleges and departments at University Park and other
Penn State locations with ITS departmental
Web space and courses with Course Online
Accounts (COLA).
This is a production service for general purpose use.
It must be used in accordance with Penn State policies such as AD-20, AD-52 and when
appropriate AD-54, RAG-16 and RA-14.
Code auditing will not be performed. Users may update their
respective code as they wish; however, it should be noted that there
is an increased risk for error/failure compared to other production
services, which may be caused by programming errors made by others
using this service.
This service is for execution of PHP code only. SSI and PHP
functions which call other programs have been disabled. CGI programs
may be installed on other servers. Additional PHP security features
such as safe_mode have been enabled.
Server Side Includes (SSI) and .htaccess files are enabled
with policies similar to other ITS Web services. You may restrict
access with passwords via .htaccess and .htpasswd files, or within
the methods provided by PHP (HTTP auth, CGI/Cookies).
With the release of Phase
II, Penn State WebAccess
authentication will be provided to restrict access to select sites,
per request. If you are interested in using WebAccess to
authenticate Penn State Access
Account and/or Friends of Penn
State Account holders, please send a request to
dbadmin@aset.psu.edu.
Phase
II offers SSL encryption (HTTPS) for select sites by request. If
you wish to use SSL with your site, send a request to
dbadmin@aset.psu.edu. While SSL encryption provides added security,
there remain other vectors for disclosure. For this reason,
sensitive and confidential data should not be used on this service at
this time even with SSL protection. The plan is to improve access
methods with subsequent implementations, enabling developers to
consider the management of more sensitive information.
Phase
II upgrades PHP from version 4 to version 5. Please note some differences between
the versions.
php.scripts.psu.edu may be used to process
PHP content in ".php" files (files that end with ".php"). Content
for various ITS Web services may be processed as PHP via:
Penn State Personal
Web accounts
The local URL paths will be the same on php.scripts.psu.edu as it is
on www.personal.psu.edu. For example, content located on the Web at
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/x/y/xyz123/ will be visible on
the PHP service as
http://php.scripts.psu.edu/users/x/y/xyz123/.
Information
about Penn State Personal Access Account Storage Space (PASS) and Personal Web accounts.
Penn State Departmental
Web accounts
The local URL paths will be the same on php.scripts.psu.edu as it is
under www.psu.edu/dept/. For example, content located on the Web at
http://www.psu.edu/dept/department_name/ will be visible on the
PHP service as
http://php.scripts.psu.edu/dept/department_name/.
Information
about Departmental Web and Disk space.
Penn State Student
Organization Web Service accounts (Sunset Feb 2, 2017)
The local URL paths
will be the same under php.scripts.psu.edu/clubs/ as it is under
www.clubs.psu.edu. For example, content located on the Web
at http://www.clubs.psu.edu/up/organization_name/
will be visible on the PHP service as
http://php.scripts.psu.edu/clubs/up/organization_name/.
Since Feb 2, 2017, Student Organizations are now offered use of Sites at Penn State, which does not offer
PHP content rendering.
Penn State Course
On-Line Accounts (COLA)
The local URL paths will be the same under
php.scripts.psu.edu/courses/ as it is under www.courses.psu.edu. For
example, content located on the Web at
http://www.courses.psu.edu/art/art100_xyz101/ will be visible on
the PHP service as
http://php.scripts.psu.edu/courses/art/art100_xyz101/.
Information
about Course On-Line Accounts (COLA).
With the advent of Phase
II, URLs ending in .php on the aforementioned sites will be
automatically redirected to the corresponding URL on
http://php.scripts.psu.edu/.
Discussion / Announcements mailing list
Users may subscribe to the L-PHPScripts list to discuss problems and challenges
with other users and administrators and receive update announcements specific to php.scripts.psu.edu. In addition, all updates, pertinent information, etc. regarding this service will be posted to this list.
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