How to publish

• We need a web server
• Basic web hosting
• Use some basic free service
• GitHub or GitLab pages

we need a web server

to host ...

• a web site ^{(mostly static hyperlinked content)(this is what we do)}
• a web application ^{(highly interactive programs accessible through a web browser)}

(Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Webanwendung_client_server_01.png , under CC BY-SA 3.0 license)

and the just copy over our files

basic web hosting

• transfer files to a web host over (S)FTP
• many local hosters, e.g.
  • world4you ^{(austria, starting at 4€/month)}
  • easyname ^{(austria, starting 4,40€/month)}
  • suspace ^{(austria, starting at 3,99€/month)}
  • hetzner ^{(germany, starting at 1,90€/month)}
  • and so many more

basic & free services

• tiiny.host
• w3spaces ^{(by w3schools)}
• netlify also has a free tier ^{(also uses a GitHub repo)}
• Learn more about publishing web sites: MDN: Publishing your website

GitHub & GitLab Pages

• https://docs.github.com/en/pages

  ~ ~ ~ demo time ~ ~ ~

• https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/pages/
  • does basically the same as GitHub, but works slightly different
  • you need to set up a basic CI config
  • create a repo and put your files in the /public folder there
  • then in the linked docs above check out the "Use a project template" link, and there the plain-html template repo
  • just take the .gitlab-ci.yml file from there and put it in your repo