Serving Static Data

If you are sharing data with external collaborators you probably cannot use a scp/sftp/rsync approach as they might not have HiPerGator accounts. If Globus seems like an overkill for your data sharing needs or you require a long-term stable URL for supporting data for a publication and you don't have another place to share that data and for other situations when you'd like to be able to present some data you have in your /orange/GROUP directory tree whether publicly or via password-protected directories the RC Static Data Sharing might be for you. In short, this is a service that allows you to copy or symlink files and directories into /orange/GROUP/web/public or /orange/GROUP/web/secure directories, run a quick commmand to generate a username and password combination for the secure share, and see that data appear under a https://data.rc.ufl.edu/pub/GROUP or https://data.rc.ufl.edu/secure/GROUP/secure_directory URL then all you need is an Orange storage quota and a support request for the initial setup and you will be ready for this mode of data sharing.