CUHK Web Server

CUHK Web Server (http://www.cuhk.edu.hk) provides a web hosting service for departments to publish their homepage. If departments needs a server supporting Content Management System (CMS) or database, please use CMS Cloud – Web Development & Hosting Service.

Available to

Departments

Service Charge and Application

Free; application required

Service Availability

24 X 7

 

(i)  All departments are entitled to apply for first level directory such as

http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/department-name

(ii) For projects under any departments, they should request the web administrator(s) of the affiliated departments to create sub-directories under their websites. For example,

http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/department-name/project-name

(iii) For projects jointly organized / managed by multiple departments or initiated at university level, they are also entitled to apply for web hosting under designated directory :

  • Projects: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/proj/project-name
  • Events: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/event/event-name
  • Centre: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/centre/centre-name

 

Every website can have one or more Chief Administrator(s), who is responsible for

(i) updating the website

(ii) adding or removing *sub-administrators through Departmental Web Admin System.

Sub-administrators can update all or part of their departmental web pages, depending on the privilege granted by the Chief Administrator(s) of that department.

However, a Chief Administrator cannot add / delete other Chief Administrators. To do so, please contact ITSC by completing the required application form.

 

You may download the user guide. (Staff login required)

(Please click Log in to sign in the page when you see below screen)

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Please click here for details.

Preparing Simplified Chinese Web Sites

The Simplified Chinese translation service is enabled by HanWEB 3.2

Decommissioning of Simplified Chinese Translation Service on HanWeb 3.2

Current HanWEB 3.2 runs on a Win Server 2008. Informed by the vendor that there is no upgrade path for HanWEB 3.2 to run on other Win Server version. For security reason, HanWEB 3.2 will therefore be decommissioned on 2 Jan 2020 before Win Server 2008 reaches its end of support.

Architecture

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Translation

    • Add https://translate.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/gb/ at the beginning of the URL to translate Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese
    • Add https://translate.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/b5/ at the beginning of the URL to translate Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese
    • Add https://translate.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/uniTS/ at the beginning of the URL to translate Traditional Chinese in unicode to Simplified Chinese in unicod
    • Add https://translate.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/uniST/ at the beginning of the URL to translate Simplified Chinese in unicode to Traditional Chinese in unicode

Examples

Followings are some notes and translation examples, you may view the source html to compare the differences of the original and translated web pages.

  1. Text
  2. Hyperlink
  3. Image
  4. PDF file
  5. Special terms
  6. Bypass
  7. Translation buttons (Please view the html source code to get the java script for your reference.)

Reminders

    • For heavily loaded system, it is not recommend to use the translation server because the translation server may not be able to handle the load and will become the bottleneck.
    • Serving hosts:
      • Now until 2 Jan 2020, any hosts/domains end with cuhk.edu.hk
      • 2 Jan 2020 onwards, www.cuhk.edu.hk only except your host/domain has subscribed its license. Contact ITSC for details.

  1. Text – directly translatedinBig5/GB2312
    Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312 Original page Translated page
    Simplified Chinese in GB2312 -> Traditional Chinese in Big5 Original page Translated page

    in unicode

    Traditional Chinese -> Simplified Chinese Original page Translated page
    Simplified Chinese -> Traditional Chinese Original page Translated page
    Both Traditional and Simplified Chinese -> Simplified Chinese Original page Translated page
    Only Traditional Chinese will be translated.
    Both Traditional and Simplified Chinese -> Traditional Chinese Original page Translated page
    Only Simplified Chinese will be translated.

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  2. Hyperlink – directly translated
    Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312 Original page Translated page
    Simplified Chinese in GB2312 -> Traditional Chinese in Big5 Original page Translated page

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  3. Image (gif, jpg, png)
    – You should prepare two sets of images, one for Traditional Chinese (named with _xb5 at the end of each filename), one for Simplified Chinese (named with _xgb at the end of each filename). HanWEB will convert the file name i.e. _xb5 -> _xgb and vice versa.

    Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312 Original page Translated page
    Simplified Chinese in GB2312 -> Traditional Chinese in Big5 Original page Translated page

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  4. PDF file
    You should prepare two sets of PDF files, one for Traditional Chinese (named with _xb5 at the end of each filename), one for Simplified Chinese (named with _xgb at the end of each filename). HanWEB will convert the file name i.e. _xb5 -> _xgb and vice versa.

    Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312 Original page Translated page
    Simplified Chinese in GB2312 -> Traditional Chinese in Big5 Original page Translated page

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  5. Special terms 
    Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312 Original page Translated page
    Simplified Chinese in GB2312 -> Traditional Chinese in Big5 Original page Translated page

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  6. Bypass

    Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312 Original page Translated page

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