Instructions to Access Personal Websites at Clemson for OL8/PHP 8.2 Upgrade 2023

These were instructions for upgrading people.clemson.edu sites. They are now out of date and users are directed to this article to learn how to access their personal Clemson sites:  Clemson Personal Webspace

OL8/PHP 8.2 WEBSITES

The people.clemson.edu servers are being upgraded for security as OL7 and PHP 5.4 are no longer supported. The architecture of these sites is being upgraded to Oracle Linux 8 (OL8) and PHP 8.2.

All people.clemson.edu site owners have a development site that will become your new site on September 30, 2023. This site is OL8/PHP 8.2 and may require changes to any code you have written for your current website if you have written it with PHP.

Your current website will remain active until the cut-over date.

If you update your current site, you will also need to update your development site to keep them in sync starting July 7, 2023.

You will need to include the word "dev" in the address as detailed below to access your Development site from 7/6/2023 until 9/30/2023.  After that your Dev site will become your published site and you will no longer need to include "dev" in the address to edit your site.  (This article will be updated in October when this change takes place.)

CURRENT SITE:

.people.clemson.edu

HDKB article on Personal Websites:  https://ccit.clemson.edu/support/kb/?id=313

DEVELOPMENT SITE:

.people82.clemson.edu

To access your development site you will need to be on the Clemson network and map a drive to view and edit it.

Windows: \\people.zfs.clemson.edu\peopledev

Mac: smb://people.zfs.clemson.edu/peopledev

The changelog for php may be found here. It includes information on how to update from php 5 to php 8.2.
Summary of PHP Changes Versions 5.6 - 8.2 (HDKB 2969)

Mapping a drive to *.people82.clemson.edu

INSTRUCTIONS TO ACCESS FILES

If you have a Windows PC, please follow these instructions:

• Open File Explorer and navigate to This PC (or may appear as My PC, PC, or some other variation on some Windows computers)
• Select Map Network Drive in the ribbon (you may have to click on ... to see Map option)
  • On Windows 11, if you do not see Map Network Drive, right-click on This PC on the left side of the list. Then you will see Map Network Drive.
• Select an arbitrary drive letter, in the Drive list
• In the folder box, type in the following: \\people.zfs.clemson.edu\peopledev
• Select Finish

If you have MacOS, please. follow these instructions:

• Select Finder
• Select Go from the Finder menu
• Select Connect to Server from the drop-down menu
• Type in smb://people.zfs.clemson.edu/peopledev/
• Select Connect