Your FREE website
on GitHub
Tony Su
KPLUG
December 12, 2019
What is Github?
Free for public use, cost for private use
Today, owned by Microsoft
Utilizes Git as its versioning file system
Primarily used by Developers
Original concept innovatively combines code repository with social media access
Will serve static websites for free!
Overview
- Github create a brand new website
- Github modify and existing website
- wget scrape a website
- HTTrack scrap a website
Topics to be covered
Create a brand new website
- Sign up, create an account on www.github.com
Login to test
- Install necessary and desired tools, components
Following is openSUSE, but use whatever package manager for your own distro
zypper in git mlocate tree lxterminall httrack- Set up git client global properties
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global user.name "Github Username"Create a brand new website
- Create a new repository on www.github.com/username
- Clone the website to your local machine
git clone [repository URL]- Create a gh-pages branch
git checkout --orphan gh-pages- Remove local files (You will likely have at least a README.md file from the Main branch)
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git rm -rf .- Create or paste some content
Create a brand new website
- Create a new repository on www.github.com/username
- Upload and set target to gh-pages (required only once unless and until switch to another branch)
git push --set-upstream origin gh-pagesPage 3
Modify an existing website
- Fork the website
- Clone a local working instance of your forked copy
git clone [repo url]- If your website was cloned awhile ago, update your local repo
git update- If you don't see website files, you may need to change to the gh-pages branch
git checkout gh-pages- Make your changes.
Uploading
- Stage your updated changes for uploading
- The following actually uploads.
git add .- Commit your changes and create an annotation so people will know what these changes are without inspecting your code directly
git commit -am "A comment"git push- If for some reason the above complains about the branch, then
Unless you configured SSH or multi-factor authentication, you will be prompted for your Password (and maybe your Username if the global setting didn't take)
git push origin gh-pagesUploading
- Check your handiwork.
http://kplug-sd.github.io/website/Currently, for the KPLUG "website" repository, the URL is
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Website scraping
- Wget
wget --recursive --level=5 --convert-links --page-requisites --domains=kernel-panic.org
--no-parent http://www.kernel-panic.orgScraping can also mean extracting content from a web page. Today we are simply doing web duplication, but also in a way that translates links so that the website can be read without a webserver.
- HTTrack
Some Additional Info
Questions?
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