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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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      @stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

      @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

      @obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

      I thought static as in literally static html pages. If you are talking about WordPress and PHP pages, that won't work on anything I mentioned, unless you have something running somewhere else that converts them to static HTML pages and pushes them to there.

      It was going to be static but wanted to upload larger images but not have them taking up the page, and just clicking to enlarge for full view. Hence thinking a CMS with light box.
      But happy if there's a simple was to do it with just HTML and PHP 😁😁😁😁

      As I mentioned my coding skills were lost 20+ years ago 😁😁

      The image enlarging would most likely be JavaScript. Just use a theme with Hugo or some other store generator that ha a gallery display that you want.

      Yeah, this is standard and built in to most static site mechanisms.

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      • hobbit666H
        hobbit666 @scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        @scottalanmiller said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

        Yeah, this is standard and built in to most static site mechanisms.

        OK sounds good, any examples on how to do it 😁😁😁

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        • DashrenderD
          Dashrender @hobbit666
          last edited by

          @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

          @scottalanmiller said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

          Yeah, this is standard and built in to most static site mechanisms.

          OK sounds good, any examples on how to do it 😁😁😁

          Hugo (gohugo.io) is what the others suggested. You can build the whole page locally on your own computer, then export the site to a local directory, which you then copy to your webhost.

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          • JaredBuschJ
            JaredBusch @Dashrender
            last edited by

            @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

            @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

            @scottalanmiller said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

            Yeah, this is standard and built in to most static site mechanisms.

            OK sounds good, any examples on how to do it 😁😁😁

            Hugo (gohugo.io) is what the others suggested. You can build the whole page locally on your own computer, then export the site to a local directory, which you then copy to your webhost.

            In my case I use Hugo in a gitlab repo.
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            I clone it locally to create content using the hugo commands. Hugo itself uses markdown.
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            Then you create yaml config file for gitlab ci. to generate teh hugo content into the public folder which is what gitlab pages looks at.

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            gitlab pages setup to serve
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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch
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              But like @Dashrender said, you could run the hugo commands locally to build the site into the local public folder and jsut upload that. static content to your webserver.

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              • hobbit666H
                hobbit666
                last edited by

                @JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example 😁😁

                Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1 😁

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                • ObsolesceO
                  Obsolesce @hobbit666
                  last edited by

                  @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                  @JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example 😁😁

                  Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1 😁

                  Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

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                  • hobbit666H
                    hobbit666 @Obsolesce
                    last edited by hobbit666

                    @obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                    Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

                    That was part of the etc 😁😁😁😁
                    Also I thought GitHub was more for storing scripts and opensource stuff.

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender @Obsolesce
                      last edited by

                      @obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                      @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                      @JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example 😁😁

                      Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1 😁

                      Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

                      That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?

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                      • stacksofplatesS
                        stacksofplates @Dashrender
                        last edited by

                        @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                        @obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                        @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                        @JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example 😁😁

                        Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1 😁

                        Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

                        That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?

                        Yes.

                        It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.

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                        • stacksofplatesS
                          stacksofplates
                          last edited by

                          My project https://gophemeral.com is also a static site hosted at Vercel. It's built with Hugo and there's an API that's a serverless function hosted with them which does the work and returns it to the Hugo site. That's also all free.

                          I recommend Vercel. It has a ton of features, builds are quick, and DNS is pretty easy with them. You also get multiple deployments so you can have different versions of the site which is something you don't get with GitLab (not sure about GitHub). And you can easily roll back to a version if there's an issue.

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender @stacksofplates
                            last edited by

                            @stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                            @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                            @obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                            @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                            @JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example 😁😁

                            Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1 😁

                            Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

                            That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?

                            Yes.

                            It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.

                            What does the URL look like to the end user?

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                            • stacksofplatesS
                              stacksofplates @Dashrender
                              last edited by

                              @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                              @stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                              @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                              @obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                              @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                              @JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example 😁😁

                              Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1 😁

                              Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

                              That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?

                              Yes.

                              It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.

                              What does the URL look like to the end user?

                              My blog's generated URL is this https://john-hooks.gitlab.io/sites/site/ but you just create a CNAME and the URL everyone would use is https://hooks.technology.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                last edited by

                                @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                @obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                @JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example 😁😁

                                Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1 😁

                                Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

                                That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?

                                Yes, it's very popular.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @hobbit666
                                  last edited by

                                  @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                  @obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                  Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

                                  That was part of the etc 😁😁😁😁
                                  Also I thought GitHub was more for storing scripts and opensource stuff.

                                  One of many things that it does. It's a big service.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @hobbit666
                                    last edited by

                                    @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                    @JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example 😁😁

                                    Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1 😁

                                    Too much money, too much work. Keep it simple and standard.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                      last edited by

                                      @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                      @stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                      @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                      @obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                      @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                      @JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example 😁😁

                                      Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1 😁

                                      Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

                                      That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?

                                      Yes.

                                      It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.

                                      What does the URL look like to the end user?

                                      This is enterprise hosting. It all looks are correct and professional as it gets.

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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender @stacksofplates
                                        last edited by

                                        @stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                        @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                        @obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                        @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                        @JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example 😁😁

                                        Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1 😁

                                        Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

                                        That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?

                                        Yes.

                                        It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.

                                        You mention they will handle HTTPS with LE for you - do you have to do something so they know what name you'll be CNAMing from?

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                          last edited by

                                          @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                          @stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                          @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                          @obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                          @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                          @JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example 😁😁

                                          Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1 😁

                                          Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

                                          That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?

                                          Yes.

                                          It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.

                                          You mention they will handle HTTPS with LE for you - do you have to do something so they know what name you'll be CNAMing from?

                                          Site configuration. When you enable hosting on a website with shared resources, you have to inform it of the host header to respond to. That host header is the CNAME, so it has to know the CNAME (even if it was an A record) because otherwise it wouldn't know to serve out the website.

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                                          • JaredBuschJ
                                            JaredBusch @Dashrender
                                            last edited by

                                            @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                            @stacksofplates said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                            @dashrender said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                            @obsolesce said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                            @hobbit666 said in How to Secure a Website at Home:

                                            @JaredBusch thanks for the detailed example 😁😁

                                            Thanks all for the input. Will look at Azure/AWS etc for hosting if I will only be under a £1 😁

                                            Why not GitHub or GitLab for free?

                                            That's the part of JB's explanation I didn't get - will GitHub/GitLab actually host your static page for free? can you point your own domain name at it?

                                            Yes.

                                            It's an artifact from a pipeline build. So pages just points to that artifact directory. You just define a CNAME to point to the generated URL. They will handle HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for you.

                                            You mention they will handle HTTPS with LE for you - do you have to do something so they know what name you'll be CNAMing from?

                                            Hello website 101...

                                            Anyway your answer was in my screenshot...
                                            896b47d9-2aa8-464a-8a65-35da49fee95f-image.png

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