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/
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I am trying to host a custom subdomain with Github Pages.
My apex domain (http://example.com) is pointing to a custom server (not Github Pages).
I am trying to get a subdomain of this (http://subdomain.example.com) to host a Github Pages site off a project page.
I have created a CNAME record for the subdomain pointing to http://username.github.io but it comes up with this error:
Your site's DNS settings are using a custom subdomain,
subdomain.example.com, that's set up as an A record. We
recommend you change this to a CNAME record pointing at [YOUR
USERNAME].github.io. For more information, see
https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages/.
I have also tried moving the project to its own Github organisation and pointing the CNAME to organisationname.github.io but it has the same result.
In both instances I have waited 24 hours for the DNS to propagate.
I have tried following the official tutorials and searching in StackOverflow for answers but have not been able to find anything for this situation.
Is this even possible to do or do the A records for my http://example.com domain affect all the subdomains below it?
Found a solution with Github support.
Turns out the answer is yes you can. I just had my apex domain configured to use Cloudflare and totally forgot about it. I made the changes described in my original post in Cloudflare and it all worked fine.
My team and I have recently purchased a Google Domain, but when trying to have the website it is connected to, it only gives us the options of website builders. We have a GitHub repository with all of our files that we want it to host, but again, only website builders. Can I make my Google Domain connect to a custom HTML page?
You can host your content on GitHub and serve them with GitHub Pages
https://pages.github.com
You can have your Google Domains domain point to it.
https://help.github.com/articles/using-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages/
You'll need to add a CNAME file to your repo with your domain URL in it. Add it manually or follow the instructions here.
https://help.github.com/articles/adding-or-removing-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/
You'll need to add some A records at the Google Domains control panel with the IP addresses of GitHub's servers (currently 192.30.252.153 and 192.30.252.154).
https://support.google.com/domains/answer/3290350?hl=en
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.
So I have multiple subdomains on my site. One of them, the blog subdomain, has a WordPress blog. I've uploaded the index.htm file to the server, but now that one index file is visible for all my subdomains. How would I change this so that different subdomains can have different index.html files?
Here's a knowledge base article to setup a subdomain on fatcow. I don't have my login information for my fatcow account here but if this doesn't help I can do some more looking tonight and help you out more.
http://www.fatcow.com/knowledgebase/read_article.bml?kbid=2939
Here's a good video on how to use their Domain pointing Manager
http://www.fatcow.com/support/tutorials/DomainPointingManager.html
I have recently learned how to write HTML pages on a standalone computer, with all the references given to the directories in the local drives.
How, then, can I do the following:
Create a website, using HTML. I know I'll be able to create its look, but I don't know what should be given as the reference address (URL) if there is a hyper link (like: href). So how do I get an address that can be used on the Internet?
How do I upload this file to the Internet, do I have to upload it onto a server? If yes, which?
If there are multiple pages then how do I create references between?
Most importantly if I have to create this site should I use HTML, or something else?
When developing a website you will want to observe the following:
You need to regsiter a domain name that you want people to use to access your site. You can do this using any number of online registrars
You will have to get a web host...again there are many. They will give you instructions to upload using FTP or otherwise
The references between pages on your website will have to use relative addresses. That is /page2.html rather than http://www.myserver.com/page2.html.
You have to use HTML to create the front end. Plus CSS and maybe JavaScript. If you need dynamic content like accessing a database etc then you have to learn server side languages like PHP, ASP.NET or JSP.
To reference pages and resources (images, css, et.c.) you can use either relative paths, virtual paths or absolute paths.
A relative path shows the relation between the items, for example:
An image in the same folder: art.gif
An image in a subfolder: images/art.gif
An image in a parent folder: ../art.gif
An image in a parallel subfolder: ../images/art.gif
A virtual path starts with "/", so it's relative to the root folder of the site:
An image in the root folder: /art.gif
An image in a subfolder: /images/art.gif
An absolute path specifies the complete URL to the resource:
An image in a subfolder: http://www.mysite.com/images/art.gif
To put the pages on the net, you need some kind of hosting. You can start with searching the web for "free hosting" and you will find plenty of sites where you can try this out.
Most free hosting offer a subdomain or subfolder for your site, like mypage.thewebhost.com or www.thewebhost.com/mypage. If you want your own domain like www.mypage.com you need to register it for a fee. Many hosts offer a domain name "for free" when you buy web space, but you will of course end up paying for it in the end as it's included in the fee for the space.
Regardless of how you create the page, it will use HTML in the end. That's what the web is made of. If you use a server side language like ASP.NET or PHP, they still output HTML pages for the browser.
This is a great site if you're just getting started with HTML: http://www.w3schools.com/
I think you are asking about how to publish your site on the web and then access it.
Buy a domain, go to any domain hosting site like godaddy.com etc.
After buying domain the domain hosting company will send you the details of your account/pwd
With you account pwd you can access their ftp server.
Put your current html pages on their ftp server (put them in the public folder)
Access your html pages on the web now.
Also note it will take atleast a few minutes before your domain info gets published on the dns servers, i.e to say it will take a while before you can access your website (usually a few minutes)
Try giving relative urls in the href link. For e.g. if you want to link index.html to page1.html in the same folder you don't need to give complete path of the page1.html for the link. You can simply write Page 1
You can learn more about relative urls from here
You can get a free web hosting account from sites like http://110mb.com , they also provide a free sub-domain and a ftp account.
You need HTML to create webpages. There's no other option.
Hope this helps.
Google is your friend. There's tons of help for web site development. I just recently switiched from HTML to PHP, but I recommend you use HTML until you are fully comfortable with it.