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Linux-shell-environment. You can compile and run your own programs here and practise your shell-skills.

users.metropolia.fi

Users' home pages. You can't login to this server.

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You have same home directories on all linux Linux servers as you have on Windows workstations. Everyone has only one home directory.

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WWW-pages

Are to be put in the public_html folder of your home directory. Pages can be seen viewed at http://users.metropolia.fi/~username. In addition to html-pages the server supports also php- and cgi-programs (file extensions .php and .cgi).

Php is The PHP version used is of the 5.2-series and the following extensions are supported:

--with-zlib \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-png-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-gd \
--with-ldap \
--enable-mbstring \
--with-mysql \
--with-mysqli \
--with-libxml-dir \
--with-xsl \
--enable-soap \
--with-pdo-mysql=shared \
--with-pdo-sqlite=shared \
--with-sqlite=shared \
--with-openssl \
--enable-calendar

Cgi-ohjelmat ajetaan suEXEC-ominaisuudella käyttäjän oman tunnuksen oikeuksilla.Cgi-programs are run with suEXEC-feature with permissions of usersfeaturewith the user's user account's own userdidpermissions.

MySQL-service

All Metropolia's users can use the MySQL-database located at mysql.metropolia.fi -server. Name The name of the database and the username to access the database server are same as your username at Metropolia. You can set password The password, however, is different and it can be set at https://amme.metropolia.fi/mysql/.

You can administrate administer your database with the phpMyAdmin-programs program which is installed at https://users.metropolia.fi/phpMyAdmin/. Old databases at Evtek's mysql-server can be administrated administered at https://users.metropolia.fi/phpMyAdmin-evtek/.

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