Dear student/visitor, we are planning to discontinue this website per Juli 1st. More information will follow shortly.
If you are unable to register at portfolio.cr.utwente.nl/new or portfolio.id.utwente.nl/new, or access a new site, please check:
Answer the questions above, if one of them is no: e-mail us the answers: include your studentnumber, the text of the confirmation e-mail (if you received that) and the log-file of FileZilla: In de top part of FileZilla, were the errors are shown, click with the mouse, then press Ctrl-A (select all), then Ctrl-C (copy). Then in a new email, press Ctrl-V (paste).
If all are a yes: first carefully (re)read the guide, it contains some important tips. If you still have problems, we will try to help you during the tutorial sessions.
Try these steps:
First carefully (re)read the guide. Make sure you upload files in folder public_html
and all files and references to these files are lowercase characters.
Errors might be shown in the
Console: Open the Console (Ctrl-Shift-J in Chrome) and reload the page. Common problems are:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
You will have to replace http:
with https:
.For Create-students: follow the course Web Technology (part of module 1). For Industrial Design: follow the course Website development (part of module 8). Both courses have plenty of online materials to get you started.
Find a good tutorial site, like w3schools.com.
If you are a beginner, you might want to start with an easy tool to create a website, like Adobe Dreamweaver. Installing WordPress on your site is also an option.
Some privacy related tips: Be really careful with photo’s. Never publish personal details like: your home address, e-mail addresses, studentnumber and phone number.
It is possible to protect your website in various ways. The easiest way is simply block access outside of the university network. In this way only fellow students and teachers connected to the university network will be able to access your site.
If you have a website made with plain HTML/CSS pages (HTML and CSS files), download
this .htaccess file, unzip the file in the root of your website folder, and upload it to the root of your site (in the public_html
folder).
If you use WordPress, download the .htaccess file of WordPress from your site to the website folder on your computer (using FileZilla). Open it in an editor and add these lines:
# allow access only from .utwente.nl
deny from all
allow from .utwente.nl
allow from 130.89.
ErrorDocument 403 /blocked/
Save the file and upload it back to your site.
If you choose this way to protect your site, please inform your Web Technology teacher and your mentor about this!
Yes. You can do that here. You can manage the database via PHPMyAdmin.
When you register for a new site, you can create a database password. It will be mentioned in the confirmation e-mail then. If you want to get a new database password later, you can just re-visit the registration page and generate a new password*. If you have lost the database password, you have 3 options:
1) find it in the confirmation e-mail,
2) if you already have WordPress installed on your site, the password will be stored in the wp-config.php file.
So you can also recover the password from there: download the file wp-config.php
and view it on your computer. The password is listed at the line that starts with define('DB_PASSWORD',
.
3) generate a new password.
But*:
* If you change the database password, your current WordPress site can no longer access the database and will be broken.
So you have to update the password in the wp-config.php
file also! See next question.
After you changed the database password, you must update the password in the wp-config.php
file of WordPress.
Learn more about what the wp-config.php file is here. This takes 3 steps:
wp-config.php
file from your website to your computer (using FileZilla)/** MySQL database password */
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'new_password_here' );
Make sure the single quotes remain there! (put the password between the single quotes)Yes. Create a database (see question "Can I get a MySql database?" above). Download Wordpress from Wordpress.org and install it. A tutorial on how to install WordPress is available.
If you get a
Connection-message to enter your FTP-credentials, you can add the
line define('FS_METHOD','direct');
to the wp-config file. Details on how to do this are in step 4 of the installation guide.
If you get errors like "An automated update of WordPress has failed to complete..."
or
"The update cannot be installed because we will be unable to copy some files.
This is usually due to inconsistent file permissions..."
:
Follow these steps to repair the permissions using FileZilla.
If you still experience troubles, try a manual install. Eg. for updates, follow these steps (BE CAREFULL: at step 4, I would suggest not to delete the directories, but rather
rename them).
No, you cannot do that yourself. But the administrator can do that for you:
Please use this form to contact us.
If you have a WordPress site, you must change the name in the Dashboard afterwards: go to Settings > General and change both the "WordPress Address (URL)" and "Site Address (URL)". Check the next question if you have issues changing the name in WordPress.
If your site does no longer function properly, and you can not access the dashboard, follow these steps to gain access.
You can access WordPress options via the database management interface PHPMyAdmin. Login with your username (eg. s1234567) and your database password.
Then go to your database (eg. click on s1234567) and click
on the table "wp_options" and check the values at "siteurl" and "home". They should have the proper URL of your website, eg.: https://portfolio.cr.utwente.nl/student/xxxxxxxx/
If they are different, edit them to change them to the
right value.
After this, login to your dashboard, go to Settings > Permalink and press "Save changes".
You can also try to add the following code in the wp-config.php
file:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true);
Then re-visit your site and see if you get any errors to further investigate the problem.
If you have just registered, it can take several hours for your portfolio site to become visible. Also sites in which no content has been uploaded yet are not displayed by the search/browse function. The search/browse function will only search in sites which contain content (at least an index-file like index.html or index.php should be there). If your site is still not visible, please contact the administrator.
You received an e-mail to inform you about a problem with your site. Follow the instructions in that e-mail to resolve the problem. Your site will be un-blocked automatically within an hour after you solved the problem.
Usually, not updating WordPress will be a reason to quarantine your site. To update WordPress, login to the Dashboard of your site and click on the update button to update WordPress. Blocked sites are still accessible inside the university network. If you are outside the university network use a VPN connection to gain access.
If you go to your homepage or login-page, you get this message: "There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions." check if you did get the email mentioned and see if you can fix things using the suggestions in it. For instance by turning on debugging and/or accessing the dashboard in recovery mode.
Usually there is a problem with a plugin or theme. For instance disabling the plugin might solve the matter. Read the article "How to fix the critical error in wordpress" to solve it. (read the part in the lower half of the page, at "Fixing Critical Error in WordPress Manually") Hopefully you will be able to fix the problem with that info.
Yes, you can. Create a file index.php
and insert the content from the example below. Replace the URL www.mysite.nl
with your own.
<?php
header("Location: http://www.mysite.nl/");
?>
There is another example here. Which includes the possibility to add a delay.
If you have graduated or for any other reason you want to remove the portfolio, send an email with a request to the administrator. Include your student number in the request.
Your site will not be removed and will remain available. If you leave the university, your student account will cease to exist. Therefore, you will lose FTP-access to your site. So you might want to save/backup your site.
If you have a html-based
site, simply transfer (download) all files from the site to your computer with FTP.
If you use WordPress, you can still maintain the site via the Dashboard. Although the site remains available it is better to
move the site to a hosting provider, in that way you are independent of the university (move it before your student account expires).
You can also make a backup (eg. with the plugin Updraftplus) and do this later.
Advise if you use WordPress: update your e-mail address in the Dashboard (Users > Your profile) and
install a notification plugin (eg. Wordfence or
mail-on-update) which notifies you about updates, otherwise your site might end up in quarantine.