How do I upload my project to comme.nirmisi.org?

Get your files ready

• Put all your files together in one package – the css sheets, the html files, the images, everything and anything else it needs.
• Make sure your HTML uses relative URLs so that all the CSS and images will work when you move them to the web.
• Obviously make sure none of your filenames have spaces in them.
• Zip them up. Make sure you zip up the entire folder from outside, not the files within the folder. Otherwise when it expands, it will spill its contents everywhere.
• Place the zip in a convenient place with a simple name (again, obviously, no spaces) such as your home folder.

Make your folder on the server

• SSH into the server from your terminal ssh avinash@comme.nirmisi.org

• In the server you'll see a prompt that says my-username@vultr:~$

• Go to the web root with cd /var/www/html

• You can see what's already there with ls

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  username@vultr:/var/www/html$ ls
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  index.html  my_pairs_folder
  

• Make your own folder mkdir folder_name

• Close the SSH session. exit

Move your packaged file to the server

• In the terminal navigate to the folder you placed you zip in, maybe your home folder cd /Users/myusername

• See if you zip is there ls name_of_my_package.zip

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  avinash@iris~>  ls name_of_my_package.zip
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  name_of_my_package.zip
  

• Move it using SCP to the server scp name_of_my_package.zip username@comme.nirimisi.org: The : is very important.

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   aviansh@iris~>  scp name_of_my_package.zip avinash@comme.nirmisi.org:
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  name_of_my_package.zip                        100%    8     0.1KB/s   00:00
  

• SSH into the server and verify it's there.

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   aviansh@iris~>   ssh avinash@comme.nirmisi.org
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  Last login: Sat Nov 26 19:36:42 2022 from 103.107.196.212
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   avinash@vultr  ~  ls
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  name_of_my_package.zip  things
  

Set it up in the right place

• Unzip the files unzip name_of_my_package.zip

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   avinash@vultr  ~  unzip name_of_my_package.zip
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  Archive:  name_of_my_package.zip
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     creating: name_of_my_package/
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    inflating: name_of_my_package/name_of_my_package.html
  

• See what you got ls

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   avinash@vultr  ~  ls
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  name_of_my_package  name_of_my_package.zip  things
  

• Copy ALL the contents of the folder name_of_my_package with the wildcard * to your folder in the webroot /var/www/html/my_pairs_folder using cp name_of_my_package/* /var/www/html/my_pairs_folder

• Go to your newly set up folder and check if it's all good cd /var/www/html/my_pairs_folder and ls

• Verify it all works by opening your URL in a browser.

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