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Did you know that you can have your own website without paying for hosting?
Ok, the purpose of this post is not promoting a cost-saving method, but to show you how you can setup your website using a static content generator (Hugo) and hosting in on GitHub.com connected to your own domain. So you don’t need to pay for and manage a hosting service.
What you need for this:
Here is the list of steps you need to take:
And now the details!
Details of this step depend on your domain registrar. For me, it is NameCheap.
You need to enter the address of GitHub.com as the hosting system for your domain. So if anyone types your domain name into their browser, they will be redirected to GitHub to show content.
First, you need to set “NAMESERVERS” option in the domain management page to “Namecheap BasicDNS”.
After that you can go to “Advanced DNS” page and update “HOST RECORDS” like below:
Here the numbers are specific to GitHub, so you will need to enter them exactly like this. “mahdix” is my username on the GitHub website. You will need to replace this with your own username.
After setting up your DNS records, you need to tell GitHub about your domain. So when it is referred to about a domain name, it knows what to show.
Go to your GitHub.com account, add a new repository by clicking “+” button on the top right of the screen, and selecting “New repository”. It’s better if you name this new repository same as your domain name but you can choose whatever name you like. Make sure “Initialise this repository with a README” is checked, so your repository will be created with some basic content.
First, you will need to open your console application. Make sure `git` is installed on your system. If it is not, follow instructions here to do the installation.
In the console, run `git clone` command to fetch a copy of your newly created repository.
Then you will need to run Hugo and write some content. You can follow instructions here as a starting guide.
When you are finished writing some content, you will need to push your changes to GitHub. This step informs GitHub about the new content you have just generated. This is done via `git push origin` command. Note that you may need to set up SSH keys if you are doing this for the first time (explained here).
Now, you need to tell GitHub about your domain name. Go to your GitHub repository, and go to “Settings” tab. There is a section called “Custom Domain”. You will need to enter your domain name there:
After you have done this step, your new content will be visible in a few minutes (This takes a bit longer only for the first time). Note that you only need to do this step once.
There is a way to use some online services to automate the Hugo part. So you only need to make changes on GitHub website interface (write content, create new pages, …) and as soon as you submit your changes, they will be published for you. I will explain this in a follow-up post.