How to access PostgreSQL from a Web Browser You can access PostgreSQL from anywhere - on campus, on a laptop, or at home - using this link: https://dbclass.cs.pdx.edu/ NOTE: First, you will be prompted to use your MCECS account login/password to authenticate with this web page. If you do not have this set up or [...]
On 8am on Thursday, February 10th, we will be upgrading the single sign-on software that provides authentication to various CAT supplied MCECS web services. The change should only affect: intranet.cecs.pdx.edu - the MCECS Intranet for IT services services.cecs.pdx.edu - the portal for card access, printer fees, and locker rentals dbclass.cecs.pdx.edu - for CS students in [...]
As announced in Fall 2021, the following Windows paths will no longer work. the U: drive (for Tier 1 Windows users) the following paths seen from Windows: \\unix\cecs \\unix\ece \\unix\solaris \\unix\linux \\unix\linu \\unix\solu Also, any variant of the above with \\unix replaced with \\unix.cecs.pdx.edu This will affect any old drive maps that use these paths. [...]
During the break between Spring and Summer terms of 2021, we will be performing an operating system upgrade of the server that supports web pages in: https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~user This change will happen on Wednesday, June 16th, 2021. If you have any web content on this server that uses PHP or any other programming/scripting code, we strongly [...]
During patching this week (July 15-17), we will be pushing out a new version of Microsoft’s native Edge browser to CAT supported Windows 10 desktops. While there may not be a large community of users intentionally using Edge, it is often the default browser on Windows 10 that runs when many applications need to display [...]
Setting Up virtualenv Basically a virtualenv is a "virtual environment" for python that contains its own python installation with separate libraries from the global python installation. Set up a virtualenv in your public_html folder by running virtualenv <~yourUsername>/public_html/yourDir>. This will create a folder with virtual python environment. Before installing any other Python packages, go to [...]
MCECS Web Server Infrastructure MCECS web servers are configured with the following: Currently running Apache 2.4 PHP 7.0 with the following modules curl date gd gmp imap intl ldap mbstring mcrypt mysqli pdo_mysql pdo_pgsql pdo_sqlite pgsql snmp soap sqlite3 ssh2 tidy xml zip Support is provided for CGI PHP typically runs as the [...]
Connect to PostgreSQL How to access PostgreSQL from a Web Browser You can access PostgreSQL from anywhere - on campus, on a laptop, or at home - using this link: https://dbase.cecs.pdx.edu/postgresql/ NOTE: First, you will be prompted to use your MCECS account login/password to authenticate with this web page. Once you [...]
Connect to MySQL How to access MySQL from a Web Browser You can access MySQL from anywhere - on campus, on a laptop, or at home - using this link: https://dbase.cecs.pdx.edu/mysql/ NOTE: First, you will be prompted to use your MCECS account login/password to authenticate with this web page. Once you [...]
Tilde-free URLs User websites reside in your public_html directory and answer to URLs of the form: web.cecs.pdx.edu/~user/path This is an old tradition and part of web standards. However, due to a dramatic increase in non-technical users coupled with a rise in mobile computing, the presence of that tilde (~) has been a [...]