Community

Campus Web Group meeting

Updates

LAMP

The move to a LAMP environment is now an official OIT project. At this point, we have identified two phases: Assessment and Implementation. The Assessment phase is the only one officially authorized. In this phase we will see not only what needs to be done but also how to do it. The Assessment will result in documentation and recommendations, including a timeline. Once we have that, we will be able to let the rest of the community know what moves might start happening.

Google Search Appliance

The Web team has recently improved performance on the GSA; specifically, a great many dead links have been eliminated, and some sites that weren't getting found now are getting found.

IFRAME injection

We recently became aware of a massive spambot attack that included Boise State and specifically our search server. The vulnerability has been patched, but the episode brought to light vulnerabilities to spambots in various forms. If you have forms in FrontPage, we have a technique for protecting your forms against certain types of attacks. For further information, contact the University Webmaster.

Summer

Summer workshops and meetings

There will be no workshops offered this summer. There will, however, be one meeting of the Campus Web Group, on 23 June.

Google Analytics

No More Logs

We are discontinuing our log analysis reports. We are recommending to the entire campus that they adopt Google Analytics instead. If anyone currently using the log analysis reports needs to have one more month of reporting, please contact the University Webmaster.

The Replacment

Jeremy Speer presented Google Analytics. This approach requires departments to put a segment of code at the bottom of each of their pages.

We recommend against setting up your own Google Analytics account. We strongly recommend that you instead contact Jeremy Speer, in Marketing and Communications, and work with him. He will send you the code to put on your pages.

This approach will allow you to see your own local statistics, but will also allow Marketing and Communications to construct university-wide reports.