Using GitHub Pages To Host Your Website


Want to host your flat file website on Github servers? follow these steps below.
Head over to https://github.com/ create an account or log into your existing one.

1. Create a new git and give it a name.

2. upload your site files and folders to your new git.
   a. Video tutorial Ubuntu: Create your first repository and upload it to Github.
   b. Video tutorial Windows: Github for Windows Tutorial video
3. Add CNAME file in master branch, by going to you master branch,
   a. Click on add new file
   b. In file name add: CNAME
   c. Inside the file make sure you use our own Github name. add: username.github.io then save the file.

4. Create new branch called gh-pages and repeat step 3 to make sure branch gh-pages has a file named CNAME with a record of your url the same as master.

5. Visit yourname.github.io


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