Drupal at Cal Poly

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Site Requests

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  1. Open source support for our version of Drupal ended in January 2025. Cal Poly has arranged for extended support while we as a campus work to assemble the next generation of our web presence.
  2. No replacement is available yet - campus projects to build the next solution are ongoing. You can expect to hear more through campus communications as more information becomes available to share.
  3. We strongly advise against setting up any new websites during this time of change.
  4. If you have new content that needs to be published, please work with your parent unit/department website. You can submit a ticket to the support center to ask ITS who the owners of those websites are if you are unsure, and we can look it up for you provided the URL of the site.
Site Administrator Information

The site admin is the staff or faculty member who will be in charge of the site, and is responsible for adding other users to the site.

Request Type and Purpose
Subdomain sprawl is detrimental to the university's web presence, and most web content does not need to be hosted on a discrete subdomain - please consider alternatives such as hosting within a parent unit's existing website.

"New Site" is the simplest site request, and means you're creating a brand new site!

"Migration" means you're planning to move the entirety of an existing site out of its current host and into Drupal.

"Rename" means you already have a site, but you want to change your subdomain, such as from oldsite.calpoly.edu to newname.calpoly.edu.

Please be aware! Renames are possible, but they are an extensive process that hurts your SEO! Review our page explaining the risks and consult with University Marketing before proceeding with this request.

"Breakout" means you're planning to move a portion of the content on an existing site into its own discrete site.

IRAs are defined by Academic Programs and Planning. The Drupal team will likely contact you to discuss IRA site requests, as they are handled on a case-by-case basis.

Clubs are not provided sites on our Drupal systems! Read more on our page about who gets Drupal sites.

Tell us a little bit about what this site will be used for.
Security

Please be aware! Drupal sites can ONLY collect Level 1 data on SecureForms sites. Please review the Information Security Site for details on data classification.

By clicking "Confirm", you agree you have reviewed and understand what constitutes Level 1 Data, and that this site will NOT be collecting any Level 1 Data.

Site Name

The format of your site URL will depend on whether or not you need to collect any Level 1 Data.

Great! Since you don't need to collect any Level 1 Data, you'll be requesting a site on our "Enterprise" environment. The URL format for Enterprise sites is:

sitename.calpoly.edu

.calpoly.edu

Since you need to collect Level 1 Data, you'll be requesting a site on our "SecureForms" environment. These sites are intended to only host the webforms that need to collect Level 1 Data, and should be used in tandem with a main/primary site that hosts your other content.

Your primary site should link users to a webform on the SecureForms when needed, and they should be linked back to the main site when the webform has been completed.

The URL format for a SecureForms site is:

secureforms.calpoly.edu/user

secureforms.calpoly.edu/

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