Deploying a Course Website From Start to Finish

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Deploying a course website from start to finish1. Download the installer file course-web-setup.zip from this URL

http://ashiskb.info/files/course-web-setup.zip

2. Then right-click on the downloaded zip file, then select Extract All option from the menu. Then hitthe Extract button at the bottom. This will extract the following three files:

a. index.phpb. pclzip.lib.phpc. setup_files.zip

3. Visit the website:http://www.uta.edu/oit/cs/unix/ssh/Secure-Shell-Client.php . Then download andinstall SSH Secure shell for Workstations 3.2.9 in your system.

4. From the Start menu , find and open the program Secure Shell client.

The following window will be displayed:
http://ashiskb.info/files/course-web-setup.ziphttp://ashiskb.info/files/course-web-setup.ziphttp://www.uta.edu/oit/cs/unix/ssh/Secure-Shell-Client.phphttp://www.uta.edu/oit/cs/unix/ssh/Secure-Shell-Client.phphttp://www.uta.edu/oit/cs/unix/ssh/Secure-Shell-Client.phphttp://www.uta.edu/oit/cs/unix/ssh/Secure-Shell-Client.phphttp://ashiskb.info/files/course-web-setup.zip


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5. Select File > Connect from the menu bar, or click on the button (i.e.., the Connect button atthe top-left part of the window as shown in previous screenshot). Then a dialog box will appear as

shown below:

Fill in the Host Name of the web server, your user name. Then click on the Connect button as shown

above. Then another dialog will appear where you have to type your password. Then click on the OK

button.

6. Once connected to your web server, the File explorer window will look like the one shown below. Clickon the Maximize button ( ) for a better view.


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7. Then type in the web-folder addresswhere youll put the three setup files as shown below:

8. Now navigate to where you extracted the setup files in your local computer (on left panel). Thennavigate your web folder where youd copy these setup files (on right panel). Then from local panel,

select the three files, and drag and drop to the right panel as shown below:


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9. Make sure the new and setup folders are writable. Put check on the groupand others writeflags. You can do this by right clicking on the folders (one after another), selecting properties and then

put check marks on the empty write boxes beside group and others. Otherwise, the setup

cannot copy a single file to the destination folder and will produce error messages.

10.Now open the Internet explorer and type in the address of the web folder where you put the setupfiles. In this particular example, the address must be

http://crystal.uta.edu/~carroll/cse2441/new/setup/ . Then the following webpage will appear.

11.Fill in all the required fields of this page. Then click the Install button. If any error occurs, theappropriate error messages will be displayed (in red) and you can correct and reinstall again.
http://crystal.uta.edu/~carroll/cse2441/new/setup/http://crystal.uta.edu/~carroll/cse2441/new/setup/http://crystal.uta.edu/~carroll/cse2441/new/setup/


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12. If no error occurred during the setup, the following screen will be displayed, that means everythingwent just perfectly.

13.You can visit the newly created website by clicking on the link as shown above. The page will be justlike the one shown below:

The url for this new course website ishttp://crystal.uta.edu/~carroll/cse2441/new/cse2222fall2020/

14.Click on the Admin Login link on the top-right corner of the page. Then use your login id andpassword to customize and administer the new course website.
http://crystal.uta.edu/~carroll/cse2441/new/cse2222fall2020/http://crystal.uta.edu/~carroll/cse2441/new/cse2222fall2020/http://crystal.uta.edu/~carroll/cse2441/new/cse2222fall2020/http://crystal.uta.edu/~carroll/cse2441/new/cse2222fall2020/


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Click on the Administration link from the left menu:

15.(ADVANCED CUSTOMIZATION):To change the course code, course title, course semester,you have to manually edit the configuration file located at your web folder:

/home/faculty/carroll/public_html/cse2441/new/cse2222fall2020/misc/base.php

Please carefully update the configuration file. The content should be like this:

You would change the values only (shown in red above), and most important is that

PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THE DOUBLE QUOTES, SEMICOLONS!

AND DO NOT DELETE ANY LINE.

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