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Welcome to the Deep Dive. We're here to help you get up to speed on interesting

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topics quickly without getting lost in the weeds.

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Exactly.

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And today we're tackling something really practical, how you can easily get your

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own static website up and running.

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Yeah, maybe you've got like a portfolio site or a simple landing page you need to

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host.

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Or just some info you want out there and you're probably looking for the simplest

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way to do that.

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Well, you're in the right place.

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Our source material for this is the documentation for an application called Surfer.

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It's designed to be pretty straightforward.

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It is.

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And before we properly dive in, we want to give a big shout out to Safe Server for

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supporting this deep dive.

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Safe Server actually provides the hosting for Surfer itself.

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And they're all about supporting your digital transformation journey.

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You can find out more about them at www.safeserver.de.

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Definitely check them out.

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So Surfer, what is it?

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Well, essentially, it's a really simple server just for static files, the basic

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building blocks of many websites.

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Right.

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And our mission today, really, is to give you, especially if this is kind of new to

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you, a clear, easy-to-grasp idea of what Surfer does and how you could use it.

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OK, let's get started.

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First things first, what exactly is a static file server?

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Good question.

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So think about websites you visit.

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Some are always changing, right?

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New seeds, social media.

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They update constantly.

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Yeah, dynamic content.

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Exactly.

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They often need complex code running on the server

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to generate those pages just for you,

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right when you ask for them.

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That's dynamic.

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Now, a static website is different.

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Think more like a digital flyer or an online brochure.

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The content, the text, the images, it's all pre-made.

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It doesn't change unless someone manually uploads new files.

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So it's just sitting there, ready to go.

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Pretty much.

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It's built from files like HTML, CSS for styling,

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maybe some images.

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A static file server, like Surfer,

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its only job is to take those ready-made files

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and send them straight to the visitor's browser

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when they visit your web address.

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Ah, so it doesn't have to think too much.

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Just deliver the files.

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Exactly.

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It's much simpler, much lighter work for the server

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compared to those dynamic sites.

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So if you have your simple website files ready,

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your HTML, your images, how do you actually

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get them onto Surfer?

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Well, this is where Surfer is quite flexible.

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It gives you a few different methods,

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depending on what you're comfortable with.

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What's the easiest way for someone just starting out?

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Probably the web interface.

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You just use your normal web browser,

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go to a special admin address for your Surfer site.

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It looks like HTTPS.yoursiteaddressadmin.

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often just a drag and drop thing.

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You take your website files and folders from your computer

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and just drag them into the browser window.

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Like uploading photos to social media or something?

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Yeah, very similar experience.

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Very visual, very intuitive.

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Nice.

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OK, what if you're maybe a bit more technical,

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or you like using the command line?

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Yep, Surfer has you covered there, too,

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with a CLI, a command line interface.

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the computer what to do.

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First, you'd need to install a little helper tool.

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The command is usually npm g install cloud and surfer.

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npm is just a package manager, a way

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OK, don't need to worry too much about the details of npm

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itself for now.

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And once it's installed, you use a command like surferconfig.

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That tells the tool where your surfer site is

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and gives it a special key and access token,

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basically proving it's you.

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For security.

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Gotcha.

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Then the main command is surferput.

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You type surferput, then the name of the file or folder

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you want to upload, and where on the server it should go.

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So surferput my website files lip, something like that.

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Yeah, something like that structure.

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And there's also surferdel.

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If you need to delete files, it might

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seem a bit intimidating at first if you haven't used

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it can be super fast, especially for uploading lots of files

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or automating things.

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OK, so web interface for easy drag and drop,

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command line for the more technically inclined.

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Are there other ways?

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There are.

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Surfer also supports WebDV.

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WebDA sounds technical again.

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It does, but the concept is actually really cool.

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WebDAV lets you connect to your surfer file storage

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as if it were just another drive or folder right

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on your own computer.

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Oh, like connecting to a network drive at work.

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Exactly like that.

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So you could see your website files in your Windows File

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Explorer or Mac Finder and just drag files in and out

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like you normally would.

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That sounds pretty convenient too.

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How does that work?

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You use a specific web address that Surfer provides.

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HTTPS.your site address WebDAV.

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Linux uses slightly different prefixes like DAVs or WebDAVs,

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depending on the desktop environment.

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And you need that access token again for logging in.

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Yeah, you create an access token in the Surfer admin area.

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And when your computer asks for the username and password

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for the WebDAV connection, you often

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use token as a username and the token itself as the password.

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And you mentioned Linux might need something extra.

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need to install a package called DAVs too to get it working

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smoothly with the file manager.

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Right, good to know.

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So that's three ways already.

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Is there more?

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One more common one, SFTP, Secure File Transfer Protocol.

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Ah, SFTP, I've heard of that.

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Often used for web hosting.

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It's another very reliable and secure way to move files.

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You typically use a dedicated SFTP client program.

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FileZilla is a really popular free one.

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Right, those often have two panels.

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One for your computer, one for the server.

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That's the typical layout, yeah.

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Makes easy to see what you're doing dragging files back

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and forth.

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Surfer's documentation mentions getting your SFTP login details,

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which usually means the server address, your username,

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and a password or key.

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An important point here is that Surfer

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lets you control who can access files via SFTP using its access

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controls.

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So it's not just for the main administrator.

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You could potentially give access to other users, too.

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That's quite a few options, then.

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Web UI, CLI, Web Day V, SFTP covers a lot of bases.

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It really does.

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It caters to different preferences

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and technical comfort levels.

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OK, so let's say you've used one of those methods.

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You've uploaded your website files.

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How does Surfer know which page to show first

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when someone visits your site?

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By default, it looks for a file named index.html

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in the main directory you uploaded.

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The standard home page file.

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the slightly older version.

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If it finds one of those, that's what it serves up

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as the default page.

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I don't know, home.html?

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There's usually a setting in the Surfer admin page, the admin

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area, where you can specify a different default index file

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name.

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Flexible.

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but there's no index file in there?

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Ah, well, Surfer has an option called public folder listing.

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If you turn that on in the settings,

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and there's no index file in a directory

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someone tries to access.

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It just shows a list of the files.

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Exactly, it'll display a clickable list

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of all the files and subfolders within that directory.

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This can be useful sometimes, maybe for sharing resources.

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for a polished website look.

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Right, you might want to be careful with that setting,

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depending on whether you want people

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browsing your file structure.

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Makes sense.

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And what happens if someone types in an address

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for a page that doesn't actually exist?

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The classic 404 not found error.

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Surfer handles that quite nicely too.

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If you create a file named 404.html,

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and put it in the root folder of your website.

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So right at the top level.

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Then whenever someone hits a URL that

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doesn't match an existing file, Surfer

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will automatically display the contents of your 404.html file

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instead of a generic server error.

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Oh, that's great.

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So you can make your own custom, oops,

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page not found page that matches your site's design,

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and maybe helps users find what they were looking for.

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Much more professional and user friendly.

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OK, let's talk about privacy and access.

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Can you control who sees your Surfer site?

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Absolutely.

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In the settings page, again in the admin area,

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you've got access control options.

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What are they?

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The simplest is public.

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As you'd expect, that means anyone on the internet

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can see your website.

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No restrictions.

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Standard for most websites.

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You have password restricted.

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You set a single password, and anyone visiting the site

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will be prompted to enter it before they can see anything.

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Good for sharing something semi-privately,

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like with clients or a small group.

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Precisely.

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And the third main option is often called user restricted.

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This usually ties into a larger system,

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like if you're running Surfer on Cloud Run.

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Cloud Run.

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Like a platform for hosting apps.

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So in that case, user restricted means

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only people who are logged into their cloud account

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on that system can access the Surfer site.

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I see.

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So more for internal company sites or community portals,

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that kind of thing.

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Where you have a defined group of users who need access.

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Public, password, or specific users.

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Good range of control there.

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Definitely.

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Covers most common scenarios for static sites.

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Now, the documentation also mentioned something about CI-CD

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integration.

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That sounds advanced.

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It is a bit more advanced, yeah.

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It stands for continuous integration

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and continuous delivery or deployment.

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What does that mean in practice for Surfer?

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It's basically a way for developers

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to automate updating their website.

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Imagine you make a change to your website's

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code on your computer.

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With a CI-CD pipeline set up, you

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could push that code change to a service like GitHub,

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and an automated process would kick off.

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And that process would update the website automatically.

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Yes.

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The documentation mentions creating an access token

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in Surfer, like we discussed for the CLI in WebDavy.

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You configure your CI-CD tool, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub

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Actions, whatever, to install the Cloudran Surfer CLI tool.

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The command line tool, again?

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And then, as part of the automated pipeline,

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it would run the Surferput command

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to upload the newly built website files, maybe

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from a folder often called dist or build.

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So Surferput dist or something similar

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would run automatically after every code change.

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Pretty much.

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It means your live website is always up to date

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with your latest code changes without you manually uploading

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files every single time.

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Very handy for active development.

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Very cool for developers, but maybe not

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something a beginner needs to worry about immediately.

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Definitely an optional, more advanced feature.

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But good to know it's there if you need it down the line.

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And just to circle back, that central control

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panel for all the settings, file uploads

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via the web, access control, that's all at HTTPS.

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Your site address admin.

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That's the one.

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Your main hub for managing the Surfer instance.

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Great.

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And if people want to learn even more or run into trouble.

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The documentation points towards the Cloud Run Forum, which

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has a specific section for Surfer.

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That's likely a good place for community help and discussion.

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OK.

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It also mentions the Surfer Code Repository and Issue Tracker,

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usually on platforms like GitLab or GitHub.

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That's where you'd find the source code, report bugs,

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or even suggest new features if you're technically inclined.

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Good resources to have.

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So wrapping things up a bit, Surfer

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really does sound like a solid user-friendly option

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for static sites.

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I think so.

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The key things are its simplicity at the core,

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just serving files, but also the flexibility

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in how you manage those files.

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Yeah, from simple drag and drop to command line

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and even automated deployments.

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And the access control options give you

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that necessary layer of privacy when you need it.

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It feels like it lowers the barrier quite a bit,

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especially for beginners who just

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want to get something online without a massive learning

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curve.

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That seems to be the goal.

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This deep dive was really aimed at giving you, the listener,

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that initial understanding, showing it

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doesn't have to be complicated.

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Absolutely.

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It's a straightforward tool for a straightforward job.

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Well put.

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So maybe the question to leave you with

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is, now that you know about these flexible options,

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what kind of static content, a portfolio, a project page,

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maybe just some shared resources could you easily

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share with the world using something like Surfer?

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It opens up possibilities.

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It really does.

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And one final time, a huge thank you to SafeServer

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for supporting us today.

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Yes.

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Thanks, SafeServer.

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Remember, they handle software hosting, including Surfer,

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and support digital transformation.

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Find out more at www.safeserver.de.