README.md

personal_web

My personal website with a golang server and simple html pages. Future work would be to visualize my projects into this site.

Status

Currently working with a BASIC page.

To run

Make sure you have bazel installed and run the following command:

bazel run server

This will bring up a local server which you can access at localhost:8080

Common tasks

If you have bazel, please add the following alias to your rc file:

alias please="bazel"

If you don't have this, you're doing it wrong.

To build a tarball

please run -c opt :web_server_tar

To build a docker image

please run -c opt :web_server_image

To push docker image to the repo

please run -c opt :web_server-push

With these commands, I can test locally, test with a docker binary, and release things into docker.

Notes

Firewall

For the server, make sure you set up the firewall correctly to test:

ufw enable
ufw allow 8080

... Do you testing

ufw reset
ufw disable

SSL Setup

This was the worst headache.

Followed the guide here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-a-containerized-node-js-application-with-nginx-let-s-encrypt-and-docker-compose

We basically set up a docker-compose to run nginx as a proxy to serve and load balance and route things.

Also has instructions to recreate certifications when they expire.