Student Organization Web Service
New URL / Where did www.sos.mtu.edu go?
Most people have noticed that if they attempt to visit a web site
that used to look like this:
it no longer works. That is because the web server on www.sos.mtu.edu has been turned off.
So, why did it change? USG decided to "out source" the student organization web service to the Distributed Computing Services Group of Information Technology Services. This group runs many other web services on campus such as www.mtu.edu, email.mtu.edu, and the "Barkboard." In many past discussions with student organizations and USG the concept of each student organization having an individual URL was brought up. DCS decided to provide individualized URLs.
Changing to use your individualized URL means you will have to let others know your new URL. It also means you may have to change some of your HTML code to refer to your new URL. Something to look for in the HTML are lines that have an "href". If this href line has www.sos.mtu.edu in it, it has stopped working. You should replace it with your new URL.
Here are some examples of URL replacements:
Replacing a fully qualified "a href" line:
Old: <a href="http://www.sos.mtu.edu/usg">Undergraduate Student Government</a>
New: <a href="http://usg.students.mtu.edu">Undergraduate Student Government</a>
Replacing a fully qualified "img src" line:
Old: <img src="http://www.sos.mtu.edu/usg/images/one.gif">
New: <img src="http://usg.students.mtu.edu/images/one.gif">
Replacing a relative "a href" line:
Old: <a href="/usg/members/index.html">Members Index</a>
New: <a href="/members/index.html">Members Index</a>
Replacing a relative "img src" line:
Old: <img src="/usg/images/one.gif">
New: <img src="/images/one.gif">