My question is:
I want to create a gatsby site (the main section of the website). I also want a gatsby run blog with netlify CMS (which is what the site will be hosted with) on the subdomain blog.site.com.
Is this possible? What would I need to research/know to make this happen? For the domain, I will use google domains if that information is needed.
You just need to create two different Gatsby sites:
1 for the main section of your site
1 for your blog
On Gatsby's side, you don't need any extra configuration (not even pathPrefix), is just a regular site. The configuration must be done in the server (Netlify) adding each site to a custom domain.
Regarding the Google domain, you will only need to add the proper DNS in each server. You may find this article insightful: https://medium.com/#jacobsowles/how-to-deploy-a-google-domains-site-to-netlify-c62793d8c95e
I know this is the most basic of questions. I made my own website in HTML documents. I bought a domain name from google. How can I publish this, how can I host it? I don't want to use any website creator, I want to publish my own files that I worked on.
You can use Github to host your website on your own domain.
You have to add the whole files needed for the website. Then in the settings of your repo use the Github pages feature and enable it. Change the source of Github pages to host in your own domain. Then you have to add some A and CNAME records of your domain to point to github servers.
Here are the full steps for the process - https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/publish-websites-on-github-pages-with-a-custom-domain/
I want to host a website with github pages and as I understood, the domain to my website will be myusername.github.io but what if I want something like custom.github.io do I need to create another github account? Or I can change that without buying a custom domain?
You do not need to create another account for that, you can directly change the name of the repository to custom.github.io instead of repository.
As: if your repository name is example then your site is hosted at myusername.github.io/example but if you want the site to hosted at custom.github.io instead of myusername.github.io/example then type the whole custom repository link, i.e. custom.github.io in the name of the repository instead of example, then your site will be hosted at custom.github.io (if it is available).
I'm trying to deploy my Github pages Jekyll site to my own domain. I have not successfully been able to do this with Glynn. Is there a simple way to do this?
Why not just have your own domain point to Github pages? You don't have to move anything, just associate your domain name with the Github Pages site;
https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages/
I created a repository for hosting a blog on github.Is there any way that I can create more to host multiple blogs?Am I limited to just one repository for hosting(since username.github.com can only be used once?)
You can have one site published to https://<username>.github.io by publishing to the master branch of a repository named “username.github.io” (substituting your actual username).
You can also have an additional site per GitHub project published to https://<username>.github.io/<project>. Project settings let you choose which branch and directory to publish.
A better description is available in the GitHub Pages documentation, including options for using custom domain names.
(since April 2013, all username.github.com are now username.github.io)
No you are not limited, it is possible to have multiple GitHub Pages sites within one account. Create another GitHub repository and push your site files to the gh-pages branch. This would result in the site being hosted at tshepang.github.io/repo-name
Now, push another file "CNAME" to the same repository and branch and fill it with movies.tshepang.net. Log in to your DNS host and add the CNAME to point to "tshepang.github.io" (just like the original site).
This would allow you to have seemingly two different sites on different domains. This would not work for having two or more sub-domains within github.io itself.
There is a possibility to host multiple pages within the same repository having sub-pages if you are fine with code duplication.
The latest version of my website is hosted on http://username.github.io/REPONAME
This is a screenshot of the structure of my root repository where I host the latest version of my website:
Inside folder "2.4.0" I can host a previous version of the same page ,which is then reachable at: http://username.github.io/REPONAME/2.4.0
This is the structure of the folder 2.4.0:
Using this methodology of sub-pages within a main page, you can host multiple sub-pages within one main page.
You can only create one user or organization site for each GitHub account. Project sites, whether owned by an organization or a user account, are unlimited.
GitHub Pages sites
There are three types of GitHub Pages sites: project, user, and organization. Project sites are connected to a specific project hosted on GitHub, such as a JavaScript library or a recipe collection. User and organization sites are connected to a specific GitHub account.
To publish a user site, you must create a repository owned by your user account that's named <user>.github.io. To publish an organization site, you must create a repository owned by an organization that's named <organization>.github.io. Unless you're using a custom domain, user and organization sites are available at http(s)://<username>.github.io or http(s)://<organization>.github.io.
The source files for a project site are stored in the same repository as their project. Unless you're using a custom domain, project sites are available at http(s)://<user>.github.io/<repository> or http(s)://<organization>.github.io/<repository>.
The publishing source for your GitHub Pages site is the branch and folder where the source files for your site are stored. If the default publishing source exists in your repository, GitHub Pages will automatically publish a site from that source. The default publishing source for user and organization sites is the root of the default branch for the repository. The default publishing source for project sites is the root of the gh-pages branch.
I found a workaround if you don't want to make separate repositories for your different sites but just want to host them. In your io repo, create an index.html file on your master branch that acts as a table of contents linking to your other sites(subDirectories) index.html files. The username.github.io master branch seems to be the landing page that enables the hosting, so if it doesn't see an index file linking out to your separate projects, it won't register your subdirectories. After this all you need is the URL to whatever project you want to view. The io basically behaves like a giant single website with all your separate projects on it. Of course, if you would rather have separate repositories, gh-pages is the way to go.
Today I created another site and rather than creating branch gh-pages I have configured the master branch in a repository setting --> GitHub pages section select Source as master (or any other branch you want). You will get site link in the same section, in my screen shot I have removed site link.
This works, but ssl is still something I need to figure.
In my case GoDaddy is where my domains rest (url1.xyz), with nameservers pointing to Cloudflare. Then in Cloudflare the A records points to Github Pages. This is website 1 live, running fine. For website 2 I create a subdirectly in my gh-pages repo with website 2 files e.g. url1.xyz/static/website2/ - Then I create a subdomain in Cloudflare (subdomain.url1.xyz). Then create a page rule (url forward) from the subdomain to the subdirectory containing the 2nd website e.g. subdomain.url1.xyz >> mask forward >> url1.xyz/static/website2/ .. Then in GoDaddy I can configure url2.co.uk to mask forward to subdomain.url1.xyz , which presents website 2 e.g. url1.xyz/static/website2/
Just to add to the above. With one github user account(https://< username >.github.io) we can still have multiple static content websites hosted with different custom domains (Eg: domain1.com, domain2.com, domain3.com)We can just create a new repository for each domain and point the A record to github pages IP and CNAME record to < username >.github.io
You can create multiple blogs in your github account.
One repository can be created under your username. Push your code to branch gh-pages and you can see the site on <username>.github.io
Another one can be created under your organisation. For this you will have to create your organization first. Create a new repository under this organisation and push your code to gh-pages. You can see your site on <organization-name>.github.io
You can also create for each of your project and the site will be available on <username>.github.io/<repository>
Please refer this for more information on github pages.