Cambridge Web Platform (Legacy - Drupal 7)¶
[Team : Cloud Team] [Team : Drupal Team] [Tech Lead : jag212] [Service Owner : bjb42] [Service Manager : jag212] [Product Manager : jag212]
This page gives an overview of the Legacy Cambridge Web Platform, describing its current status, where and how it's developed and deployed, and who is responsible for maintaining it.
Service Description¶
The Cambridge Web Platform provides websites for University departments, faculties, research groups, offices of the UAS and other University institutions and functions. These websites include the "Project Light" University house style. The websites are built on the Drupal CMS, version 7.
Service Status¶
The Legacy Cambridge Web Platform is currently live, with sites being migrated out of the service into the new Cambridge Web Platform.
The Web and Intranet project team hope to have all sites migrated out of the Legacy Cambridge Web Platform by Q1 2026. This is subject to change.
Contact¶
Technical queries and support issues should be directed to webmaster@admin.cam.ac.uk and will be picked up by a member of the team working on the service. To ensure that you receive a response, always direct requests to webmaster@admin.cam.ac.uk rather than reaching out to team members directly.
New feature requests are not being accepted for the Legacy Cambridge Web Platform.
Environments¶
Each website on the Legacy Cambridge Web Platform has multiple environments as standard including a production environment, a test environment and a development environment. These are all hosted on our platform as a service partner Pantheon.
The Pantheon platform also allows the creation of "multidev" environments. These allow copies of websites to be spun up easily for developers to work on specific issues without affecting the standard environments.
Source code¶
The source code for the Legacy Cambridge Web Platform is spread over the following repositories (TBC soon).
Technologies used¶
The following gives an overview of the technologies the Legacy Cambridge Web Platform is built on.
| Category | Language | Framework(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Content Management System (CMS) | Drupal | 7.103 |
| Programming Language | PHP | 8.1 |
| Hosting Platform | Pantheon | N/A |
Operational documentation¶
The following gives an overview of how the Legacy Cambridge Web Platform is deployed and maintained.
How and where the Cambridge Web Platform is deployed¶
Websites provided by the Legacy Cambridge Web Platform are hosted on our cloud platform as a service partner Pantheon.
Deploying a new release¶
Release documentation for the Legacy Cambridge Web Platform will be linked here soon.
Monitoring¶
All websites in the Legacy Cambridge Web Platform are monitored by DevOps standard monitoring tools such as GCP Uptime Monitoring. Pantheon also run their own monitoring tools, and provide additional tools for our use such as New Relic.
Service Management¶
The Teams responsible for this service are:
The Tech Lead for this service is jag212.
The Service Owner for this service is bjb42.
The Service Manager for this service is jag212.
The Product Manager for this service is jag212.
The following engineers have operational experience with this service and are able to respond to support requests or incidents: