Shared Web Application Hosting (SWAPP)
UWM Shared Hosting service is available as a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP) platform for hosting and maintaining University web applications for schools, colleges, administrative units, academic centers, and other university-wide programs and services.
In Scope
- Applications designed, and run, by University affiliated departments utilizing recommended development techniques within the UWM Shared Hosting Developer documentation.
- Applications approved by the UWM Shared Hosting administration team for use by University affiliated departments.
- Development Environment – For use in creating applications and conducting significant enhancements on applications. This environment can also be used as a test bed for innovation and discovery in regard to custom web applications.
- Beta Environment – For use in testing application changes in a non-production environment that closely matches production environment.
- Production Environment – For use in hosting live UWM Shared Hosting applications and performing ongoing, routine site content updates and editorial changes.
Out of Scope
- UWM.edu top level content (e.g. UWM homepage, university-wide marketing and communication pages).
- UWM branded division/school/college/departmental websites.
- Hosting of personal sites (including sites UWM Professional sites – named after ePantherIDs).
- Storage and archiving of digital assets not optimized for web and mobile and not part of University sites and blogs.
- Student organization sites and blogs.
- Site-specific versions or configurations of shared server components.
- Application dependencies not authorized by the UWM Shared Hosting administrative team.
- UWM.edu subdomain-hosted websites.
Learn about other university IT services that may meet use cases outside the scope of UWM Shared Hosting