Create a “self-deploying” website (no server to manage) with Codeberg Pages
You can create a website without coding, using freely distributed software only.
I tell you how to do it.
First create an account with https://codeberg.org1.
Once you have created an account, go to https://codeberg.org/your_username/
Then, in the top right menu, click on
+, and then selectNew Repository.
You should be a new webpage.
On this page, write
pagesas the name of the repository, write a few words as the description, and pick a license (if you don’t know pickAGPL v3 or later).Then scroll down and click on the blue button
Create Repository.Now, in this newly created repository, click on the button
Add file, then in the drop-down menu selectNew file.
You should be on a page with a frame in which you can type text.
Type the name of this newly created file, for example,
index.html.Copy the following text in the file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<p>This is a plaint text website</p>
<p>To build your own follow the instructions from <a href="https://yctct.com/codeberg-pages">https://yctct.com/codeberg-pages</a>.</p>
<p>CC BY-ND-SA 4.0</p> Scroll down.
- Then click on the blue button
Commit Changes.
You are done, you’ve created a website.
You should be back on the “homepage” of the repository.
To see what this website looks like: click on the button Visit Page, on the top left below the menu bar. The page you just created should be on the web.
There is a few more things you can do.
- You can use your own domain name; the instructions are on the homepage of Codeberg Pages.
- you can set up SSH between your local machine and the repository so you can edit the file locally using git.
Note: When you create a webpage with Codeberg Pages your site is hosted by Codeberg e.V. (eingetragener Verein), a German registered non-profit association.
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