Staff listS

Personal details

NEW Method 1 (self edit):

– Edit the file <username>.html in the /storage/silver/metweb/userdetails/public_html folder on NX or on the RACC2 cluster (or Windows path \\rdg-home.ad.rdg.ac.uk\research-nfs\silver\metweb\userdetails\).
– All the new profiles should be in place. Met admin should create file(s) for new staff. In case of existing profiles the published file was copied from the old location either the met personal webpage (former mdrive), or from personal.reading.ac.uk (former ndrive), see below about the old method.
– If your userprofile content is in WP form instead of being in <username>.html file, you can  ask Met admin to transfer data into your <username>.html and delete redundant content in WP form.
– A template is available at /storage/silver/metweb/userdetails/template.html and can be used if you want to start from a fresh template.
– See notes below including the old method ⁽¹⁾]

Method 2: ask admin team to send a template or Download an example to fill in. They will update the published file for you (see Method 1), as well as any other profile details.

All other details (outside of the ‘inner content’) such as room number, phone number, title and one line profile summary will have to be edited by the Met admin. Please email any request to met-adcov2@reading.ac.uk

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⁽¹⁾ The <username>.html file is pure html. When in /storage/silver/metweb/userdetails/public_html, ownership of the file is being automatically changed to <username>, such that staff members can edit their own profiles without getting access to edit profiles of other staff members.

You can check if the file is visible on the web under the URL: https://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~userdetails/<yourUsername>.html

OLD METHOD, NOW DEFUNCT:

The previous method was to create a userdetails.html file in your /storage/silver/metweb/ <username>/public_html/ folder or if you had a http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk website using another method.
If the file is not visible, look at the instructions here, or use the dedicated tool (Publish public_html) on RDS.

The n-drive has been withdrawn – please see these rather convoluted instructions on how to access and edit your web content

Previously if you had a http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk website you could use Windows to access your Ndrive following instructions here.
From Linux, the easiest it to access your Ndrive from the web interface: https://netdrive.reading.ac.uk/

Note that for “classic” users, their published file used to be hosted under their unix web directory, now available at /storage/silver/metweb/<username>/public_html/ and visible under http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~<username>/userdetails.html, or it used to be in their http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk website. Those files were copied to the new location, while the old copy was left where it was. The old copy is no longer used in the profile page, but might be still online as http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~<username>/userdetails.html or as http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~<username>/userdetails.html.

Personal websites

You can either edit your files by accessing them on a public_html directory in your Unix home area that points to //storage/silver/metweb/username/public_html or on what was the N-Drive (see convoluted ITS instructions).
<!— This website is loading files located on your N-Drive, under the subdirectory /public_html. Read more…—>

Another option is to create your own external personal page that you can link from your official landing page, or set up your own group page (see below).

Note: PHP can run on this server.
Note: This service is not provided for new users

Project Websites

1. Use the WordPress service (research.reading.ac.uk). Read more…
2. Ask for a simple blog (WordPress blog: blogs.reading.ac.uk). Read more…
3. Use the Met apache web server (met.reading.ac.uk). This is usually useful for dynamically generated content (scripts, model outputs…). Files will be located under /storage/silver/metweb/.  Contact IT if you wish to publish some content here.