NetNews of May 2nd 2000.

Integration of nicewww and home in the new Web Services.

On May 10th, 2000 the nicewww.cern.ch and home.cern.ch servers will 
be merged in the central web services. All web sites that were 
accessible using the sintax http://home.cern.ch/foobar or 
http://nicewww.cern.ch/foobar will be handled by the central web 
services and will be redirect to http://foobar.home.cern.ch/foobar 
(same URL *independent* from the physical location of the web site 
that can be stored on AFS or NICE or on the Central web servers),
"foobar.home.cern.ch" being an alias (CNAME) of the server hosting 
the "foobar" personal web site.
 
The old syntax http://home.cern.ch/foobar or http://nicewww.cern.ch/foobar
will still work, ensuring the backward compatibility with existing html 
links or bookmarks. From the 10th of May, the name of the server "home" 
or "nicewww" can be omitted or replaced by "www" when specifying the URL 
of a personal web site. Example: The site http://home.cern.ch/marc or
http://nicewww.cern.ch/marc will be accessible also as 
http://www.cern.ch/marc or http://cern.ch/marc and in all cases, it will 
be redirected to http://marc.home.cern.ch/marc 

After May 10th, there will be no longer an automated web site created 
with every NICE and AFS account. Users willing to have a personal web 
site (to share documents, to access their home directory from the
internet,...), will have to register it at http://cern.ch/webregister. 
The registration form allows to chose where to have the personal web 
site stored (AFS, NICE or Central Web Servers).

At the address http://cern.ch/webr/View_Database.htm end-users can 
review the web sites they own, delete unused entries or create new ones.

The Web Services team - www.support@cern.ch