I wanted to know if there was a neat playbook or tutorial set that one can refer to if they’re trying to set up their own static website from home?

So far I have done the following:

  1. Got a raspberypi (Raspberry Pi 2 Zero W) and raspberrypi OS installed with fail2ban ready.
  2. Installed nginx (I have not configured anything there).
  3. Written the HTML and CSS files for the website.
  4. Purchased a domain.

How do I complete the remain pieces of this puzzle?

My purpose: I want an online profile that I can share with my colleagues and clients instead of relying on LinkedIn as a way to connect. Eventually, I will stop posting on LinkedIn and make this my main method of relaying information and disseminating my works and services.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•2 months ago

    I know it’s not self hosting, but I went with a Hugo site hosted on Cloudflare pages. That way I don’t have to port forward or worry about uptime or security.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•2 months ago

      You can do the same on github too. It’s pretty seamless in my experience and I dont mind people seeing the source code for my blog

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 months ago

        Yup for sure. I specifically have mine open source. I have my domain through Cloudflare so that made sense.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 months ago

        You can set up your project in a private repo and in your deploy action push it to the main branch of your public Pages repo. I agree it’s not a huge deal to show the source, but I prefer it like that.

        name: Deploy Hugo site to Github Pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
    workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set up Hugo
        uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v3
        with:
          hugo-version: "0.119.0"
          extended: true

      - name: Build
        run: hugo --minify

      - name: Configure Git
        run: |
          git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
          git config --global user.name "Your Name"
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          cd public
          git init
          git remote add origin https://user/:${{ secrets.DEPLOY_TOKEN }}@github.com/USER/USER.github.io.git
          git checkout -b main
          git add .
          git commit -m "Deploy site"
          git push -f origin main

        edit: Markdown is adding a / after “user” in above git remote command. Don’t know how to get rid of it.