Table of Contents
1. Things you can do with your ~/publichtml
1.1. What is a userdir?
The apache config now has a UserDir directive which means that it will serve content that's located in your ~/publichtml directory. To access any files that you place in there all you need to do is go to archlinuxuser.online/~<username>/<my-html-file.html>.
1.2. Serve static content
You can just put files in your ~/publichtml and they will get picked up immediately.
Here's what mine looks like.
~/public_html$ ls -R1 index.html style.css test ./test: test.html
You can view this website at https://archlinuxuser.online/~jordan/
Here's what the index.html looks like
<!-- ./index.html -->
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello world</h1>
<p>UserDir works, yay!</p>
</body>
</html>
Here's the style.css that index.html refers to.
/* ./style.css */
body {
background-color: burlywood;
}
1.3. Serving static content that you've generated
Managing lots of pages manually can be difficult so someone invented static site generators. A static site generator will take in a number of posts written in an easier to edit format like markdown and use them create a website with everything nicely laid out with a theme and maybe even an rss feed.
Whichever static site generator you end up using the result should be a folder whose contents you can serve on a static webserver. All these files can be uploaded to ~/publichtml.
A command like the following should serve well for most purposes. Tailor it to your needs and look in the man page for rsync for help
rsync --delete -rav -e "ssh -p <yourportgoeshere>" website/ user@archlinuxuser.online:public_html