README.md

As a super dooper newbie to web development, css, & javascript I thought that doing my own website would help me begin to understand the ins and out of this chicanery.

Simple steps I took to get the site up and running:

1. Went and set up a free (as in beer) account at 000webhost.
2. Went to GoDaddy and changed the nameservers to those provided by 000webhost
3. Took a sample bootstrap file under boostrap>examples>, changed the header size, messed with some css
4. Took the files under bootsrap > dist and added those to my home directory for my website.
5. Looked up ftp-ing and then set up an ftp connection with computer and 000webhost and then ftp-ed the file structure on my computer to the 000webhost account

Most Recent Iteration — WordPress

• Used laughing squid to do the hosting of the personal site
• Trying to get WordPress setup, currently following the instructions listed here
• The biggest pain: FTP-ing the entire WP download onto your site
  My Workaround: I discovered the program ncftp

  • The command that finally got me there from this blog post was:

       $ ncftp -R -u myUsername -p 'myPassword' ftp2.myFTPaddress www.benjaminmgross.com/foldercontents /*
    

  • The general command of that is:
    $ ncftpput -R -v -u “username” -p “passwordHere” ftp.nixcraft.biz /nixcraft/forum /tmp/phpbb

  • Where:
  • -u “username” : Ftp server username
  • -v : Verbose i.e. show upload progress
  • -R : Recursive mode; copy whole directory trees.
  • ftp.nixcraft.biz : Remote ftp server (use FQDN or IP).
  • /nixcraft/forum : Remote ftp server directory where all files and subdirectories will be uploaded.
  • /tmp/phpbb : Local directory (or list of files) to upload remote ftp server directory /nixcraft/forum