Websites & Hosting
The university’s website serves as a platform for informing external stakeholders, including prospective students, researchers, and faculty, about university activities. OIT and the Office of Communications and Marketing (OCM) work together to make decisions about sites and content within the university’s website domain. Remember: any site with a utk.edu address represents the University of Tennessee. For internal communications, make sure to use the university’s intranet platform.
OIT and OCM provide multiple options for website hosting, including a University-Supported WordPress environment and virtual server space for faculty, staff, and students—all at no additional charge.
Websites are available to groups that support the university's mission and to students working on their academic coursework.
About Websites Services
University-Supported WordPress
OIT and OCM offer a managed WordPress service that is designed to allow departments, faculty, and staff to manage the content of their WordPress web pages while OIT manages the WordPress installation.
Public Linux Environment (Public LAMP)
The Public Linux Environment is a robust, full-stack LAMP service running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is available for student coursework and projects and non-WordPress sites for special events, conferences, and research labs and projects
SharePoint Communications and Intranet Sites
OIT supports SharePoint Online communications sites for internal web content and collaborates with the Office of Communications and Marketing to support the UTK Employee Hub.
Choose the appropriate form on the right to best fit your needs
- Request a new website (University-hosted WordPress)
- Site access for me or someone else
- Help with an existing site
- WordPress Plugin Request
- Redirect Request for University-hosted WordPress
- Request help with SharePoint Communications and Intranet sites
Request a URL
Custom/Vanity URLs and Domains (Virtual Host): Choose Request a Domain to get started.
Departments and organizations with an existing website can request a university-hosted URL or update an existing URL. Learn more about this option on OIT’s website.
Related Services
Request a Domain
Departments and organizations with an existing website can request a URL. Because the university’s website is a platform for communicating with external stakeholders about university activities, requests for top-level URLs, sites using utk.edu and tennessee.edu, are subject to approval.
MySQL
MySQL is a popular open-source SQL database management system. It is often used as a free back-end database for many web and open-source applications. If you’re planning to set up WordPress on your Linux server, you will also need to sign up for a MySQL database.
SSL Certificates
Go to the SSL Request Form.