CIS Web Server

Owned by NEIL MANN
Dec 01, 2023
2 min read

Accounts

Student and employee's OTC accounts:

  • Uses same OTC username/password

  • Has access to /var/www/html/users/<username>

  • Only the username folder is visible, cannot access any other folder

  • Content can be accessed via browser at https://cis-web1.otc.edu/users/<username>/

Local accounts:

  • Only provided to Web Design instructors that requested access

  • Unique password only for that account

  • Has access to /var/www/html

  • Can access all user folders

  • Content can be accessed via browser at https://cis-web1.otc.edu/

How to connect

CIS-WEB1 is ONLY accessible from an OTC network (including OTC-WiFi, but NOT OTC-Guest), you must either be on campus or use VPN/remote.otc.edu

For instructions connecting to a Student Virtual Workstation from off-campus: Student Virtual Workstation - OTC Knowledge Base - Confluence (atlassian.net)

Use your preferred FTP client (pictured below is FileZilla)

Hostname/server: cis-web1.otc.edu

Port: 21

You may get a warning about TLS:

NOTE: on an internal trusted network connecting to a trusted server, this is acceptable, this is not security best practice for production servers connected to the internet.

You should be able to see the root directory “/”, which is your user folder: