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Domain Names at UMDNJ

Over the last year, ACS/IST has been working with University representatives to provide easier to remember and more appropriate web addresses to the UMDNJ community.

To this end, an official UMDNJ Policy was formulated and adopted. Exceptions to and interpretations of that policy are left in the hands of a Web Oversight Group that includes the Vice Presidents for Information Service & Technology, Government and Public Affairs, and Research.

A URL is a "Uniform Resource Locator," a global address of a web page and/or other resource on the World Wide Web. The UMDNJ Policy defines more uniform and useful URLs, promotes use of a single web addresses, displays that address browser products, and maintains the validity of old addresses.

As of this date (February, 2001) the following umdnj.edu addresses should be used and promoted for the major units of the University:

The following URLs will continue to work by being redirected to the corresponding address seen above:

• http://www.umdnj.edu/gsbsweb
• http://www.umdnj.edu/njdsweb
• http://www.umdnj.edu/njmsweb
• http://www2.umdnj.edu/rwjpweb
• http://www.umdnj.edu/shrpweb
• http://www.umdnj.edu/sn
• http://www.umdnj.edu/snweb
• http://www3.umdnj.edu/~som
• http://www3.umdnj.edu/somweb
• http://www2.umdnj.edu/sphweb
• http://www2.umdnj.edu/ubhcweb

The new naming strategy has one technical consequence. If a site contains a search form constructed to search for pages running under one of the newly-named virtual servers, a modification of one configuration line may be necessary. For example, at

http://rwjms.umdnj.edu/tools/search.htm

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