2.3 Deployment

Right now, the files you’ve been working on are stored locally onto your computer. In order to upload it to the internet so others can also see, we have to deploy our website online.

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Creating Website Repository

• Click the plus sign in the upper right and click create new repository

• Name your new repository username.github.io, except replacing username with your own username (eg: mine would be gracejiang.github.io)

  

Publish Your Changes

• Open terminal (Mac) or command line (Windows)
• Navigate to your folder using cd commands (use pwd to check you are in the right directory)
• Initialize git into your local directory using git init
• Point the origin of your directory to the proper git repository using git remote add origin https://github.com/username/username.github.io.git, replacing username with your own username
  • Eg: mine would be git remote add origin https://github.com/gracejiang/gracejiang.github.io.git

• Copy and paste each line into your terminal / command line

  • git add .: adds all files to staging area

  • git commit -m "build site": prepares all files in staging area to be pushed

  • git push origin master: pushes all files to your github repo

Checking Online

• Your website is now live at https://username.github.io (replacing username with your own username)

  • Eg: mine is https://gracejiang.github.io

  • Changes to live will usually take a while, so check back to your website in 5-10 minutes

Congrats!

• Congratulations – you officially have your own personal website up and running on the internet!

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