Working with RCI

Setting up a Web Site

Here are the steps necessary to set up your web site:

1) First you will need to set up a departmental (or “rci” or "become") account. Information about departmental accounts can be found here: http://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/newdocs/dept/dept.php3 .

The online form for requesting a departmental account can be found here: https://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/webtools/become/ .

This account will be used to host your web site. The name can be a maximum of eight letters. This is NOT necessarily the name someone would type in to get to your site (see Step 3). It is the name you would type in to upload pages. Someone in your office will be responsible for the administration of this site. That means they will determine who has access to it, and they will get any notices about accounts that might be sent from the Office of Information Technology.

2) Once you have a departmental account, you will need to upload at least one page into it (usually a page with your department’s name on it so you can be sure it’s working). You can upload a page to your departmental account via FTP*. Open your FTP software, enter rci.rutgers.edu as the host name, the departmental account name as the Username, and your NetId:password as the Password. In order to view the page you uploaded to your account, use the following URL in your browser: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~accountname .

3) Next you will need to request a "virtual host" for your departmental account. This is a name like "academics" for instance, which will become part of your web address (e.g. academics.rutgers.edu). You can get a virtual host by requesting one from accounts@rci.rutgers.edu. They’ll need to know the name of your departmental account, and the virtual host name you would like. Again, this may or may not be the same name.

For instance, the departmental account for the New Faculty Traveling Seminar is “travsem,” while the virtual hosts are travelseminar.rutgers.edu and travelingseminar.rutgers.edu. Both of these virtual hosts point to the departmental account "travsem."

4) Once you have a virtual host set up, you can transfer your web site to your new account.

*FTP software such as WinSCP, PuTTY, and SSH can be obtained from the Office of Information Technology at https://software.rutgers.edu/software/details.php?id=57 . You will need your NetID to login.

Adding a User to an Existing Account

The owner of a departmental (or “RCI” or “Become”) account is the only person who can add a user.

  1. Go to:  https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/ratspriv/grouptool .
  2.  Enter your NetID and password.
  3. When you get to the “Choose a Task” screen, click the “AddUserScreen” button.
  4. Enter the RCI username of the person you would like to add  (jcrotty, eburris) in the box provided, and click the “AddUser” button

It usually takes a couple of hours for the change to be made.