Developer Web

The SourceForge.net developer web service provides a robust web server platform (similar to our [Project Web Services]) which can be used to host static HTML content about you and your interests, such as a resume or CV, or a website about your open-source hobbies.

Developer web is only available to members of projects hosted on SourceForge.net.

Quick Start Guide for Developer Web

What’s that you say, you want to just get to it? Use one of our supported protocols, like SFTP to upload your files:

[jsmith@linux ~]$ sftp jsmith@frs.sourceforge.net
Connecting to frs.sourceforge.net...
The authenticity of host 'frs.sourceforge.net (216.34.181.57)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 68:b3:26:02:a0:07:e4:78:d4:ec:7f:2f:6a:4d:32:c5.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'frs.sourceforge.net,216.34.181.57' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
jsmith@frs.sourceforge.net's password:
sftp> cd /home/user-web/jsmith/htdocs/
sftp> put index.html
Uploading index.html to /home/user-web/jsmith/htdocs/index.html
index.html                                                          100%  241     0.2KB/s   00:01
sftp> exit

Features

• Developer web runs from our project web server pool. Our project web servers frequently handle more than 50M hits per day; we handle server scaling, caching, load balancing, and performance tuning.
• Developer web content may be uploaded using our File management service (sftp, scp, rsync)
• Each user is allocated the USERNAME.users.sourceforge.net VHOST (virtual host), which is used to serve their project web content.

Management

Developer web service is an “always-on” service; no opt-in is necessary. To use developer web, simply upload new content or scripts to your developer web space.

Uploads may be performed using our File management service

Until you upload an index page to your developer web space, a default redirect will be used, to send visitors to your main SourceForge profile page.

The files for your developer website should be uploaded or moved into the /home/user-web/jsmith/htdocs/ folder (replacing “jsmith” with your username).

Access

At SourceForge.net, each user is provided the USERNAME.users.sourceforge.net (replace USERNAME with your SourceForge.net username) sub domain. You may access your user website via web browser at: http://USERNAME.users.sourceforge.net

Backups

SourceForge.net performs routine backups for all of our servers and will restore from these backups in the event of catastrophic server failure. We encourage users to make their own backups of their developer web data, as that data restore can be performed by the user in the event of accidental data destruction.

Backups of developer web data may be made using the File management service.