Connecting to Your Departmental or Organization Site

Departmental/Organization sites on the DU Server

DU departments/orgs and units who wish to host their Web content on the du.edu server (Agora) must request space and an address by completing the Web Site Request form.

Login and Passwords for the DU Web Server

Your user name/login on the du.edu web server is a unique alpaha-numeric identifier that has up to 8 characters.

If your DU e-mail address is in the juser@du.edu format, your user name on the web server is the same as the first part of your email address before the @ sign.
If your email address is in the firstname.lastname@du.edu format, the firstname.lastname part of your email address will NOT work as your user name.

Your password for personal sites is the same passcode you use to log into webCentral.

If you do not know your web server user name, call the UTS Helpdesk (303.871.4700) between 8am and 5pm Monday - Friday.

Accessing your site

Settings for the most popular web editors:

Contribute: new connection (WebDAV only)
Contribute: changing an existing connection (WebDav only)
Dreamweaver settings (FTP)
FrontPage settings (FTP)

If you are using SSH, NotePad, a web editor without an FTP client, etc. with Windows:

Using My Network Places (FTP) to transfer files outside your web editor.

Other FTP Clients

If you are not using the built-in FTP client in your web editor, there are numerous options available. A few popular choices include:

PC
- Filezilla
- ws_ftp
- Coffee Cup
- Leech FTP

MAC
- cyberduck
- netfetch

Common Connection Issues