Discontinuing EDUC Service on December 23, 2025

JMU’s EDUC web-hosting service (https://educ.jmu.edu) will be discontinued on December 23, 2025. You are receiving this email because you have an active EDUC account. If you have content on EDUC that you would like to keep, please download it and/or move it to an alternate web hosting service as soon as possible. If you have content that you no longer need, you may either remove it or do nothing. All EDUC accounts and data will be automatically removed on December 23.

If your content is of a personal nature, we recommend you establish a personal account at a third-party web-hosting service. We do not recommend any third party in particular, but examples include wix.com, weebly.com, and wordpress.com. Content of a JMU nature may be eligible to move to one of the following services (see the links for information):

- CampusPress, a service of the JMU Libraries, is a managed WordPress instance for classroom and lab collaborations, research projects, and scholarly initiatives. CampusPress cannot support code-level file access or scripted elements and therefore is not a suitable replacement for code-dependent dynamic content.

- BeInvolved, a service of the JMU Office of Student Life, is the hub for recognized student organizations on campus.

If you have questions related to the end of the EDUC service, please contact the IT Help Desk at 540-568-3555 or helpdesk@jmu.edu.

Educ.jmu.edu is a webserver for JMU faculty/staff/student individual content and general faculty/classroom Unix/Linux development use. The 'Educ' name is pronounced as in Educ-ation, in other words E-Duke-ation or E-Duke.

This server is not the home for general JMU information, which can be found at: http://www.jmu.edu/.

Proper Usage of this Server

Educ.jmu.edu is shared by faculty, students, and staff, for the purpose of personal webpages in their http://educ.jmu.edu/~userid/ URL, as well as a basic Unix/Linux command primer for general classroom use. Users agree to work within the confines of their /home1/eid/ and /home1/eid/WWW/ directories, and avoid executing programs and scripts or installing packages which can adversely affect the server, or make changes to the server in part or whole. As with all Unix/Linux systems, proper security measures are enforced, however all users agree to be good benefactors of this resource. Educ.jmu.edu is not a tear-down brick-and-morter server for lab use. Users agree not to use this server for file storage, nor as an video/audio server, application server, nor for any professional or advertising purpose outside of university use.

Connecting to the Server

For security reasons, this server no longer supports FTP clients. Rather you must use an SSH/SCP/SFTP client. Windows users please reference the Server Guide page for download information. When connecting to the server with the SSH/SCP client, you will use your JMU e-id and password for authentication. You must have an active JMU e-id and password in order to publish to educ.jmu.edu

If you have a valid JMU e-id and password, and need access to educ.jmu.edu, fill out the Educ Account Application.

To view pages for a specific user, simply go to: http://educ.jmu.edu/~userid/ where userid is the JMU e-id of the particular user's webpage you are looking for.

See the Server Guide and 'Publishing a web page for more info.

Basic HTML for publishing

• Beginner's HTML

Software for Programming on the Server for the Classroom/Lab

• gcc compiler
• java
• perl
• python

NOTE: For security reasons, neither dynamic web programming nor PHP is not offered on this server.

Linux Online Resources for the Classroom/Lab

• JMU Linux Project Resource Page
• JMU's Red Hat Satellite Server
• Satellite Server Registration
• Linux/Unix Computing Page