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 will host a static site (just a few pages actually) on Netlify, a cloud hosting provider. It would be my notes and may have sensitive code and API keys. I want it set up so that only I can access this site from internet and no one else. How can I block access to the static site for others?
Alternately, if I do the same with with Github Pages, is it possible to restrict access there?
You need an access control mechanism to protect your notes.
If you are running the web server doing the hosting, most web server programs (Apache and nginx are the two most popular) have built-in access control mechanisms, see link given by Carsten H or see Access Control with Apache or How to Set Up Password Authentication with Nginx (Digital Ocean guide).
If you are using Github Pages, it is possible to do access control, but a bit more tricky. You can create a Github OAuth application and ask people to authenticate using your Github OAuth app. The app will ask for their username, and check if that username matches a list of allowed Github users (probably just your Github username). If the usernames match, static content is served up, otherwise the user is redirected to a 403 forbidden page.
Also see the github-heroku-attack-rabbits project page for details of how to create the Flask app mentioned above (using flask-dance to authenticate users via your Github OAuth app). The Flask app can be hosted for free on Heroku.
Two more things to note regarding public/private repos:
If you are using Github Pages, the repository containing your notes will need to be private, otherwise the contents of your notes will be in a public repository (even if the Github Pages static page has an access control layer).
Just because a repo is private does NOT mean its Github Pages page is private. By default, a private repo's Github Pages page is accessible/readable by the public. It is up to you to put an access control mechanism in place to protect the page.
You can try the encryption route. Here, the name staticrypt really says everything (I have a demo here). It allows you to create a password for each page for your website. It used AES-256 encryption, so as far as I am concerned, a long password should suffice.
If you don't share the password, you will be the only one to view the webpage.
These are actually two questions and is good practice to ask them individually.
This is a frequently asked question and depends on your server, e.g. for Apache you can edit your .htaccess following this instructions
you need to create a private repository by checking the private repository option during the repository creation
So I am currently trying to setup a static website by using Google Cloud Platforms and Google Domains. I have my domain already purchased and I added the following to my domains custom resource records.
www | CNAME | c.storage.googleapis.com.
I then created a bucket for my .dev domain. Then I added my html index file and some javascript files to that bucket. I made all of my files public and set the main page to my index.html file. After doing all of that I went back to my Google Domains overview and clicked website. This showed me a preview of my webpage loaded. I clicked it to go to my website but I am greeted with a privacy error.
NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
I am guessing that it is because my website is not using https. If I look in the advanced part of the error it says that my website is using HSTS. So my question is how do I change my website to use HTTPS instead of HSTS? Also, does this only happen to .dev domains?
I am trying to upload files to dropbox from my website using Drop-Ins provided by dropbox. While creating app on dropbox for this I have added Drop-Ins domain "www.mydomain.com". But now, my website URL contains sub-domain like "www.subdomain.mydomain.com". This sub-domain changes with the users.
When I try to upload to Dropbox from such URL then dropbox is responding with error message Origin does not match any app domain. I know it is because of URL registered (while creating app on drop-box) is different then URL from where I am trying to upload.
So, how can I upload files to dropbox from URL which contains sub-domain and it (sub-domain) changes with users.
In this case, you should be able to just register the bare domain, for example, mydomain.com, which would enable use on any subdomain of mydomain.com, e.g., subdomain.mydomain.com, subdomain2.mydomain.com, www.subdomain.mydomain.com, etc.
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.