Static sites are websites that have no dynamic components, e.g. databases or server-side scripting languages. A number of static site generators exist in a variety of languages, such as Jekyll, Wintersmith, and Pelican.
Questions tagged [static-site]
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Jekyll not generating files from deeply nested folder
I am trying to generate a site that contains javadoc.
The structure looks like this:
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|--com
| |--myproduct
| |--mypackage
| |--notgenerated.html
|--index.html
In the _site folder I get only
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|--index.html
When I add a…

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Making a static ASP.NET site which has 100+ pages
I am converting an old html based website to ASP.NET, so that we can include more features like AJAX, Databases later on to the site. Currently my task is to create a new .aspx page for each older html page. To keep the layout persistent i have made…

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load any static site in liferay portal
I am new to Liferay, checking out what all kind of features it provides.
Can we just load any static content website, just by passing its URL to a liferay portal.
It will be something like if portal can behave like a browser, except that it always…

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Is it possible to restrict a static site to allow only access from cloud run (iframe embed)?
I have a React app running on google cloud run, with user authentications and permissions.
Now I would like to write documents for the app. The documents will be a static site holding at google cloud storage.
In the app, users with different…

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nginx configuration for serving static content on each subsite of Wordpress subdomain multisite
The Wordpress multisite(subdomain) is like this:
root domain: xxxx.com
subsite 1: a.xxxx.com
subsite 2: b.xxxx.com
subsite 3: c.xxxx.com
I want to add subdirectory(which serve static content) to each subsite,
it look like this:
xxxx.com/z/…

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Store Flask blog content by using database or something else?
I'm writing a Flask blog app.
I think that it some kind a heavy way to use database to store every post content. Is there a nicer way to implement this?
Is it a good way to use things like static site? If it's so, how to do this?

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How to create a file that persists on the server with HTML5
How can I create a file (let's say a markdown file) that persists on the server, strictly using HTML5? So no database or web server, just an static site server.

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Redirecting or replacing old Google Site with another (Ruby on Rails)
My cousin has given me her old website to "redo" which is on a Google Sites template. I have separately created a static website with Ruby on Rails setup and Bootstrap but am now scratching my head on how to transition her old Google Site to this…

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Pure markdown files to html generator
We are trying to convert our documentation files (md files) into a static website.
We have been looking at Hugo, Metalsmith and other static site generators.
But we feel that all of them are forcing us to add custom markup or a lot of extra…
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How to preview a static site?
With Ruby on Rails I can run rails s -p 3000 and preview my site at localhost:3000.
With React I can run npm start and view the site at localhost:8080.
What if I just have html and CSS files, how do I preview that?

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Can you use both Gatsby and Next js for a single react js website?
I'm curious if it's possible, and if possible advisable to use both Gatsby and Next js. From a beginner's eyes, it seems like the choice of which to use could come down to a page by page need, rather than a site by site need. The project I'm working…

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Which site-generator can I use?
I need a static site-generator with the following characteristics:
simple: I don't want to be obliged to learn a new language to create a site (unless it is html, css, markdown, etc.);
open: it has to be free (as in freedom), or…

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Create REST API without using any backend
How do you create a rest api without using any backend technologies such as node, express? ie: Is it possible to create an api using only client side framework such as react, vue and no server side involved?
I would like to create a very simple…

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