{"id":12,"date":"2013-10-11T22:29:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T03:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/template\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:11:29","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/swapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared Web Application Hosting (SWAPP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading size-h1 heading-separator\" id=\"h-shared-web-application-hosting-swapp\">Shared Web Application Hosting (SWAPP)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-in-scope\">In Scope<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Applications designed, and run, by University affiliated departments utilizing recommended development techniques within the UWM Shared Hosting Developer documentation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applications approved by the UWM Shared Hosting administration team for use by University affiliated departments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Development Environment\u202f\u2013 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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beta Environment\u202f\u2013 For use in testing application changes in a non-production environment that closely matches production environment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Production Environment\u202f\u2013 For use in hosting live UWM Shared Hosting applications and performing ongoing, routine site content updates and editorial changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-out-of-scope\">Out of Scope<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>UWM.edu top level content (e.g. UWM homepage, university-wide marketing and communication pages).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UWM branded division\/school\/college\/departmental websites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hosting of personal sites (including sites UWM Professional sites \u2013 named after ePanther IDs).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Storage and archiving of digital assets not optimized for web and mobile and not part of University sites and blogs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student organization sites and blogs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Site-specific versions or configurations of shared server components.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Application dependencies not authorized by the UWM Shared Hosting administrative team.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UWM.edu subdomain-hosted websites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\">\n<div class=\"uwm-p-card uwm-p-card--gold uwm-u-mb-40\"><div class=\"uwm-p-card--body\"><div class=\"uwm-p-card--content\">\n<p>Learn about other university IT services that may meet use cases outside the scope of UWM Shared Hosting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-buttons--full\">\n<a class=\"uwm-c-button uwm-c-button--full uwm-u-mb-20\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/technology\/\" rel=\"\">Other UWM IT Services<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-u-flex uwm-u-flex--left\">\n<a class=\"uwm-c-button uwm-u-mr-20 uwm-u-mb-20\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/swapp\/hosting-request\/\" rel=\"\">Hosting Request<\/a>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"uwm-c-button uwm-u-mr-20 uwm-u-mb-20\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/swapp\/support-request\/\" rel=\"\">Support Request<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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