Hosting a Web Page On Your Pod

Introduction

This hack enables you to host traditional web pages on your Solid pod. Solid is 100% backwards compatible with the existing web. Hosting a webpage on your pod couldn't be easier. It can either be a normal HTML page. Or interactive using JavaScript.

We're going to create public web page hosted on your Solid pod, which can be accessed from:

https://{yourname.solidpod}/public/mysite/webpage.html

The Hack

Browse to your solid pod. Since you want to offer your web page to everyone on the Internet go to your public folder. Within your public folder click the green + sign on your databrowser and click the folder icon and give this new folder the name mysite. Now click the new green + sign within the mysite folder and create a new source by clicking the icon and give this the name webpage.html.

Create a webpage with the databrowser

This will create a file webpage.html in your public mysite folder. Expand webpage.html and hover over the top which will give you the ability to edit the source.

Edit webpage source

In the textbox type in something (or paste) something suitably kitch. Example

<h2>Hello</h2>

Solid World!

And click the green tick. Congratulations, you have now published your first web page to solid!

Tip 1 Drag and drop a file to the green plus and it will be uploaded to that directory.

Tip 2 If you want to start a site within the mysite folder, you can name the HTML file index.html and this way the contents of the folder will not be shown as a Solid Pod folder, but your HTML file will be used instead.

Demo

https://solidhacks.solid.community/public/demos/webpage.html

Exercises

For fun, try and create some of the short files here, using only copy and paste!

http://aem1k.com/