Naming conventions for UW websites

Summary

Information on naming conventions for UW websites

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IT maintains a standard naming convention for UW websites to lessen the affects of attacks to web servers coming in with strings that contain non-standard characters. These standards will help to secure the UW web servers as well as help to minimize problems with various web software programs.  

Website names can contain:

 

  • the standard set of characters A thru Z and numbers 0 thru 9 
     
  • the following non-standard characters only 
      - (dash)
     _ (underscore) 

     
  • 15 characters or less

 

Website names can not contain:

  • spaces

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Article ID: 8245
Created
Fri 8/7/15 2:26 PM
Modified
Fri 8/14/15 12:43 PM