Access to Web Storage -stustorage.uww.edu

UW-Whitewater students can access Web storage and publish Web content using the stustorage.uww.eduserver.

CONNECTING TO WEB STORAGE USING A WINDOWS PC: FTP

You can use any number of FTP clients (we recommend filezilla) to connect to your Web Storage account from a Windows PC; however, you are encouraged to useWebDAVto connect to your Web Storage account from a Windows PC because it is more secure.

Connecting using FileZilla

The page below will walk you through the steps of configuring FileZilla to connect using secure FTP.

View the instructions

Other FTP Clients

If you have a preferred FTP client you will need to provide the FTP server to connect.

For Students

Your connection information is:
Server:stustorage.uww.edu
Username & password:your NetID username and password.
Connect using:FTP with TLS/SSL

CONNECTING TO WEB STORAGE USING A MACINSTOSH: WEBDAV

To access your Web Storage account using WebDAV from a Macintosh computer running 10.4+ WEBDAV is built into the mac OS.

This is the recommended method for connecting to Web Storage from a Macintosh.

After you login to the Mac click on the "GO" menu and click on "Connect to Server":

For students enter the following addresshttps://stustorage.uww.edu/username, for faculty and staff enterhttps://webbe.uww.edu/usernamewhereusername is your UW-W Net-ID. The click "Connect"

You will be prompted to enter your username and password. Enter your UW-W Net-ID username and password and click "OK".

You will now be connected to Student Storage or Faculty/Staff Web Storage. Students will see PRIVATE, WEB and any CLASS STORAGE accounts you have, faculty and staff will see their FACSTAFF and any web accounts they have. You will be able to drag and drop items back and forth as a regular hard drive.

You are now connected to your accounts via WebDav, to disconnect from your storage account do one of the following.

You can ctrl+click on the icon on your desktop and select eject or from with in the finder window click on the eject button next to the networkdrive.

To upload pages:
After entering your WEB folder account, upload the files by dragging them into the proper folder. Note that the first page you want to come up must benamed “index.htm” (or “index.html”) for others to see it by default; otherwise, the page will display an error.

To view your website:
You can view your website by visiting your addresshttp://students.uww.edu/usernameorhttp://facstaff.uww.edu/username.

Note:The images in this tutorial are taken from a lab machine, your office Mac or personal Mac may not be indentical in all the images.