Platforms for Your Web Services

IT services (ZI) offers you platforms on which you can operate your web infrastructure. This service is available to the institutes, departments, projects, and student organizations of UZH.

Magnolia is the first choice for hosting a website. We currently run more than 600 websites on this platform – and the number is increasing. Realizing a website in Magnolia has many advantages:

• There are various functions available to you
• It is easy to learn how to use it (an introductory course is also offered)
• There is detailed documentation
• There is a contact point for advice and technical support
• It is a centrally maintained system, i.e. you do not have to carry out any maintenance.
• The operation of a CMS is guaranteed even in the distant future

Request website (centrally or in CMS Magnolia)

You can create and install dynamic applications (e.g. with read and write access to a database) yourself on the UZH's central web server. The Web Hosting Panel (WHP) is the new platform for PHP applications. Here you can manage your applications via a GUI. With respect to PHP, we cannot provide more than purely technical support.

access to the web area (is issued by your IT manager)
Supplementary information (primarily intended for IT managers)
Web Hosting Panel (WHP)

Frontend-Styleguide for non-CMS websites

Operators of non-CMS websites must adapt them independently to the UZH corporate design. For this purpose, we provide you with a front-end style guide with the HTML templates, which you can download from the following website:

UZH CD Web-styleguide

Our standard database is the MySQL compatible MariaDB. This is an easy-to-use relational multi-user database and is suitable for web connections. The application for a MariaDB is done by your IT manager(s).

We can offer consulting and technical support for MariaDB. Should you cause any data or configuration errors however, you must rectify these yourself.

MariaDB (primarily intended for IT managers)

(For the following platforms we can only offer technical support.)

Blog

Official blogs of institutes, departments, or projects (but not private blogs) can be run on our central WordPress. You will receive the CD (corporate design) of UZH. The URL of such a blog is composed of the institute and the blog abbreviation: http://www.uzh.ch/blog/<institute abbreviation>-<blog abbreviation>/ (the latter can be omitted from the “main” blog).

Apply for a blog (can only be done by IT managers)
http://www.uzh.ch/blog/zi/ (ZInfo – example of a "main" blog)

Registration and online payment for congresses and events

Event management solution (is extremely well documented btw.)

Web Access Statistics

We use Matomo, which sees itself as an alternative to Google Analytics. It has the advantage that log data classed as sensitive under data protection law are stored on one of our servers at UZH.

Request access statistics for your website

Tiny URLs / URL shortener

Create Tiny URLs (login with short name / WebPass)
Further information on Tiny URLs

Mailing Lists

Projects and organizations can have their IT managers set up a mailing list on Sympa, if the IT managers agree.

Sympa

GitLab.Uzh

Switch offers UZH members a GitLab service for universities.

gitlab.uzh.ch
Further information