Daniel Canet professional website

Before you begin

This project requires that you install these next dependencies on your computer:

1. install git on your computer.
2. install node on your computer.
3. have a valid GitHub user with access to the project repository: github.com/dcanetma/danielcanet-site/.
4. Connect your computer with SSH to GitHub.

Downloading the project

First step, will be to download the code of the project on your computer.

1. Open a Terminal window.
2. Execute these next commands below:

# 1. Install Hexo.io
npm install -g hexo

# 2. Download the source code from GitHub
$ git clone https://github.com/dcanetma/danielcanet-site

# 3. Go to the project's folder
$ cd danielcanet-site

Important: You only need to execute the above commands once.

Managing the website on your computer

Once you have donwloaded the project, you are ready to start managing the website contents.

1. Open a Terminal window.
2. Execute these next commands below:

# 1. Go to the project's folder
$ cd danielcanet-site

# 2. Install/update project dependencies (plugins and stuff)
npm install

# 3. Run the website on your computer
npm start

3. Visit http://localhost:4000/ to watch the site.

Publish the website to the hosting provider

This project uses GitHub Actions to publish the website to the internet.

The logic of the publishing procedure to the hosting server is store on this GitHub Actions workflow file.

Whenever you want to publish the website to your hosting provider, there are two methods available:

• Automatic publishing method
• Manual publishing method

Both methods use the FTP credentials stored on the secrets project settings at GitHub.

Automatic publishing method

1. Merge changes from master to deploy
2. Go to Actions tab on the GitHub's project.
3. Wait for the "Build and publish ..." job to finish.
4. Visit the website at www.danielca.net.

Manual publishing method

1. Go to Actions tab on the GitHub's project.
2. Select the "Build and publish..." job
3. Run workflow on the desired branch.
4. Wait for the "Build and publish ..." job to finish.
5. Visit the website at www.danielca.net.

Setting up FTP credentials

Important: You will need to update these settings whenever you need to change the hosting provider or the FTP user and password.

You can manage the the FTP credentials stored on the secrets project settings at GitHub Actions.

The FTP configuration store at secrets is defined by these next settings:

• FTP_SERVER: URL to publish the website to.
• FTP_USERNAME: FTP username.
• FTP_PASSWORD: FTP password.
• FTP_REMOTE: Remote folder to publish to.

Note: There are certain hosting providers, like CD-Mon, that disable their FTP service if it is not been used for 30 days.

License

MIT - Daniel Canet