How do HTML websites work

[Litbelb]

I have written an entire HTML website on my PC. Now, I want to publish the website. Google isn't much help, so can someone explain to me how I can publish an HTML document to a website.

 

If I am missing details that you need to help me, let me know

Thanks for any help!

[eeeee1]

probably can use something like github. or speaking about websites, todays video was sponsored by squarespace!

[Litbelb]

2 minutes ago, eeeee1 said:

probably can use something like github

can you explain more on how to do that?

[Electronics Wizardy]

basically you need a server that handles http requests, like apache nginx, or IIS.

 

If its a simple webserver, copies the files into the directory, run the server and go. If its fully static you could just host it on s3, but firing up a small ec2 container is probably good.

 

 

[Litbelb]

yikes. ok. I am most skilled in nginx, but not very good at that. thank you

[Electronics Wizardy]

11 minutes ago, Litbelb said:

yikes. ok. I am most skilled in nginx, but not very good at that. thank you

Its not really that hard. FOr a simple install, you can often just copy the html files to /var/www and your good.

 

Should setup https aswell, lets encrypt is good for this.