Information on Operations web
A dedicated AFS volume has been created for the web directory OPERATIONS,
which ensures that the information will be backed-up separately from the rest of the huge ATLAS web.
AFS write access
The AFS path to the web pages is
OPERATIONSWEB = /afs/cern.ch/atlas/www/GROUPS/OPERATIONS/
Two directories have been created, prodSys and dataBases. You may rename them,
if you prefer different names.
The special AFS access group zp:operations was created to grant write access to this web.
Use the standard AFS commands to see who has write and read access and to grant write access to more
developers.
> cd $OPERATIONSWEB> fs listacl> pts members zp:operations> pts adduser -user <loginId1> <loginId2> -group zp:operations
Web access
At present we have provided in the directory OPERATIONS one .htaccess
file, which allows navigation through the directories. This is very useful, but works obviously only
if you do not use files, which are automatically opened by the browser, like index.php.
The .htaccess file is soft-linked.
.htaccess files, try to keep the possibility to navigate. If your
.htaccess file is useful also for other web developers, even only as an example, consider
to add it to the collection of .htaccess files in
/afs/cern.ch/atlas/www/GROUPS/COMPUTING/webAssets/accessControl/,
and then soft-link to it.
Web alias
For now there is no web alias available. If you intend to use this web site for a long time, we may ask Kathy Pommes to establish an alias, e.g. atlas-operations. This is a sort-of "redirect", known to the server.
Recommendations
Use of base tag
It is very convenient to work with the <base> tag and
to use in your html code only relative addresses.
The current page is an example how to do this. Look at the source in the AFS directory, not in the browser,
which transforms the original source.
Style
If you use style sheets, icons and other web assets, collect them in one directory, see for
example the directory webAssets, which is used for this purpose for
atlas-computing.
If you need icons, which are useful for others also, please add them to the directory
/afs/cern.ch/atlas/www/GROUPS/COMPUTING/webAssets/images/.
Much more recommendations for web pages
where written for atlas-computing, but are partly useful for any web.