Create Static Site using Godaddy and Google Cloud Storage in 15 minutes

create_static_site.MD

Steps to create a static Site using Godaddy and Google Cloud Storage

Create a static html site

• Can use this boilerplate to modify: http://www.initializr.com/
• Make all your subpages and make sure to link them
• Check your index.html works

Buy yourself a domain

• Go to http://www.godaddy.com
• Login to your account or create one
• Search for a domain and pay for it
• On godaddy click on your name on the topright
• Click on manage domains
• Click on the website domain you want to change
• Go to the second tab, which is the DNS Zone file
• Hold other steps till you setup the google cloud storage

Get yourself google analytics

• go to https://analytics.google.com
• in the Admin tab, click on add a property
• add property corresponding to your site: www.your-domain-name.com
• take the website tracking script and make sure to update all your static html pages with this tracking script
• It should look something like this:

<script>
  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
  })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

  ga('create', 'UA-12346789-1', 'auto');
  ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>

Get yourself a google storage bucket

• Go to https://console.cloud.google.com
• Login and setup your account
• Click on the top left and scroll down till you hit Storage
• Create a bucket called www.your-domain-name.com

Verify domain name belongs to you

• At this point, you will have to verify that you-domain-name.com belongs to you.
• Go to the following site
• https://www.google.com/webmasters/verification/home?hl=en
• Click on add a property
• type out the url and click continue
• You should be able to do this simply enough if you are on godaddy
• For other DNS hosts, you will be asked to upload some files to your domain.
• Once verified continue with the next steps

Continue to google storage bucket

• Upload all your files to the bucket
• Make sure all folders etc are uploaded also
• Go back to the main page. On the right side of the bucket you created click on options
• Edit website config
• Add index.html and 404.html
• Go inside bucket. Click on select all files.
• Click Share Publicly on the top list of options
• Do this for all folders inside

Back to godaddy.com

• Go into DNS Zone File for your domain
• Click add record
• Create a CNAME record pointing to c.storage.googleapis.com
• Go to the setting page
• Add a forwarding rule
• Choose a 301 forwarding without masks to www.your-domain-name.com
• You are done
• Add forwarding rules form different domains you have bought into the main DNS host ex: my-other-domainname.com forwarding to www.your-domain-name.com.

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Check Now Should be all done!

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