ATTENTION: The Division of Information Technology will be discontinuing this service on January 5th, 2026. If you have a need for this type of service moving forward, please contact the IT Help Desk at 828-227-7487.

Welcome to CLAWS.wcu.edu

Claws.wcu.edu is a web server at Western Carolina University exclusively for students and student organizations. The purpose of this server is to provide students with a web presence and a web-application development environment.

Account Name

Your account name will be the same as your Catamount Mail username (you must include the @catamount.wcu.edu.) and your password is your PIN number.
Your web address (URL) on this server will be http://claws.wcu.edu/accountname/ (Without the @catamount.wcu.edu).

For Example: Your username would be abjones1@catamount.wcu.edu and the URLwould be http://claws.wcu.edu/abjones1

Disk Quota

Students account disk quotas are set to 500 Mbytes. Disk storage is a limited and finite resource, so we ask everyone to do periodic account housekeeping.

How Long Do Accounts Remain on Server?

Student accounts will reside on the server as long as a student is enrolled at the university. Once a student graduates or leaves the university their account will be terminated.

Clubs and organizations will continue to have an account as long as they are officially recognized by the university.