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''Note: This guideline is written by Shauna, for Shauna. You will likely have to adapt it to your needs/permissions - please do contact us if you need help!'' |
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* Fork a repository of a previous site |
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* Customize name & contents and push back to github. |
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To create an event webpage in the style of [http://wellesley.openhatch.org/ this one]: |
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* Ask Asheesh to create the NSF site. |
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* Building the website |
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* SSH into linode, into directory, and run ./update_and_push |
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** Create an organization for the school, for example: oh-hogwarts. Make sure the hello@ email address is used for account name. |
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** Fork [https://github.com/openhatch/oh-campus-template the template repository] into the organization account and rename to be a github.io page, for example: oh-hogwarts.github.io |
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** Edit the CNAME record in the template to redirect to the appropriate domain name, for example: hogwarts.openhatch.org |
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** Customize |
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*** Change repository name to reflect event |
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*** Change colors if needed (I like to use school colors) |
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*** Change text: date, time, location, name of hosts |
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*** Create a new sign up form for the event (may just duplicate previous ones) and change the link on the website. |
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** Add, commit, and push changes back to Github. |
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* Set up domain name with cloudflare.com |
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*** Go to "DNS Settings" (it's an option in the drop-down in the right-most column) |
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*** Scroll to bottom of page to add two new records: |
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**** Type: CNAME |
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**** Alias <campusname>.openhatch.org to oh-<campusname>.github.io |
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**** Also alias www.<campusname> to <campusname> |
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Latest revision as of 18:27, 17 April 2014
Note: This guideline is written by Shauna, for Shauna. You will likely have to adapt it to your needs/permissions - please do contact us if you need help!
To create an event webpage in the style of this one:
- Building the website
- Create an organization for the school, for example: oh-hogwarts. Make sure the hello@ email address is used for account name.
- Fork the template repository into the organization account and rename to be a github.io page, for example: oh-hogwarts.github.io
- Edit the CNAME record in the template to redirect to the appropriate domain name, for example: hogwarts.openhatch.org
- Customize
- Change repository name to reflect event
- Change colors if needed (I like to use school colors)
- Change text: date, time, location, name of hosts
- Create a new sign up form for the event (may just duplicate previous ones) and change the link on the website.
- Add, commit, and push changes back to Github.
- Set up domain name with cloudflare.com
- Log into cloudflare.com (username openhatch) and create a new CNAME record
- Go to "DNS Settings" (it's an option in the drop-down in the right-most column)
- Scroll to bottom of page to add two new records:
- Type: CNAME
- Alias <campusname>.openhatch.org to oh-<campusname>.github.io
- Also alias www.<campusname> to <campusname>
- Log into cloudflare.com (username openhatch) and create a new CNAME record