static

Call it The GCDLADB if you like.

2 min read Oct 5, 2021 | Updated: Oct 6, 2021 07:43
Pertinent Resources This section simply tabluates the posts and documentation used to effect migration of all sites from the Grinnell College static host to GitHub Pages. Resource Address Hugo: Host on GitHub https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/ GitHub: Getting started with GitHub Pages https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages GitHub: Creating a GitHub Pages site https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/creating-a-github-pages-site GitHub: Managing a custom domain for your GitHub Pages site https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/managing-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site#configuring-a-subdomain Customizations Do NOT Set publishDir = "docs" Do NOT change the publishDir parameter in your configuration, if you even have one! The default public setting is correct. ...

Searching This Blog Using Fuse

1 min read Sep 27, 2021 Superseded by posts/113-blog-migration-details
A short time ago I moved this blog from DigitalOcean to Azure, and along the way I discovered that my search feature wasn’t working properly. That old search mechanism used Fuse, which has NO dependencies, but that old scheme used a Hugo theme component that I found difficult to properly maintain. So, as this blog was moving to Azure I elected to try something a little different with Fuse and found this gist to help get it done. As of this writing, the new search is limited to just finding tag references, and sometimes a search will return a 404 error because of a bad path reference. ...

Moving Static Sites to Azure

5 min read Sep 13, 2021 | Updated: Sep 15, 2021 08:11 Superseded by posts/112-moving-static-sites-to-github-pages
On Thursday, September 9, 2021, I discovered that Azure, Microsoft’s offering of host/cloud services for Open Source developers, and a favored partner of Grinnell’s IT department, had come up with a Static Web App deployment scheme that allegedly would rival what I’ve been using at DigitalOcean. So, I first tried to migrate my very simple Static Landing Page Hugo static site to a new home on Azure. The process wasn’t quite as slick and easy as at DigitalOcean, but Azure does nicely leverage GitHub Actions, and the process wasn’t too difficult to grasp. ...

Repairing Static.Grinnell.edu

4 min read Sep 17, 2019
This morning, Tuesday, September 17, 2019, I awoke to find our https://static.grinnell.edu server, and all of the services on it, unreachable via the web. I managed to open a shell on the host and found that the server was up-and-running as expected, but a quick docker ps command indicated that one of the key services on the server, namely Traefik, had stopped and then failed to restart, repeatedly. Traefik is the service that’s responsible for routing web traffic on the static host. ...