[Falkirk] Volunteers wanted for the website

[iain matchett]

Hi, sorry for the late response - been auditing stuff this week so not been
wanting to be near technology!

DNS set at the registrar for pages - I believe its a CNAME thats needed
yeah and the file William mentioned is akin to adding a vhost in apache

I'll jump on irc over the weekend if you're up for it - what channel?
(Sounds obvious but still - what about a web irc on the site lol)

And sorry for the ridiculous format and spelling - typing this on my phone
in the car!
On 10 Sep 2015 19:41, "Greg Sutcliffe" <greg.sutcliffe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10 September 2015 at 15:59, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Greg Sutcliffe <greg.sutcliffe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Following up on this then - sounds like we're agreed on something
> >> simple, probably statically generated and the source held somewhere
> >> public, and the actual site on some simple hosting platform.
> >
> > Why not, then, use GitHub Pages?  The site is a GitHub repo, and the
> > hosting is handled by them.
>
> I don't have any strong argument either way, save that I'm familiar
> with Openshift and not with GitHub Pages. Both are free, both are
> backed by git. On one hand, if we choose to add more weighty features,
> Openshift can support that easily (I run several Rails/PostgreSQL app
> there for example). But on the other hand, if we decide to do that,
> migration of the static site as a first step would be equally trivial.
> It's a flip of a coin really.
>
> >  Using a custom domain name rather than
> > <projectname>.github.io is as simple as putting the new name in a file
> > in the root of the repo and committing.
>
> Who handles the DNS? I assume we need to CNAME at least?
>
> > If you want a hand, I'm happy to help, did this a while back for a web
> > community I'm part of: http://evolt.org/
> > https://github.com/evoltorg/evoltorg.github.io
>
> Thanks for the offer!
>
> Greg
>
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