Hosting

Marmite genetates a static site, so you can host it in any web server.

Examples:

  • Github pages
  • Gitlab pages
  • Netlify
  • Vercel
  • Nginx
  • Apache

Github Pages

This is the easiest and cheapest option to publish your static blog, you need a Github Repository containing a content directory and a marmite.yaml

Fork this template repository https://github.com/rochacbruno/make-me-a-blog and give a meaninful name like blog to the forked repo.

Or start from scratch! it is very simple!

Create a new repository and the following files.

.
|_ marmite.yaml
|_ content
  |_ 2024-10-22-my-first-post.md
  |_ about.md

Edit marmite.yaml to add your preferences.

name: My Blog
tagline: Poems, Essays and Articles
url: https://YOURUSER.github.io/REPONAME
menu:
  - ["About", "about.html"]
  - ["Pages", "pages.html"]
  - ["Tags", "tags.html"]
  - ["Follow me", "https://mastodon.social/@YOURUSER"]
  - ["Github", "https://github.com/rochacbruno"]

Now you need to tell github actions to go inside your repo root and run

marmite . site

And then publish the site/ directory as the github page for your repo.

You can automate that:

First access https://github.com/YOURUSER/REPONAME/settings/pages and set the pages source to Github Actions

Then add a workflow to your repository.

.github/workflows/main.yaml

name: GH Pages Deploy

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:

# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  id-token: write

concurrency:
  group: "pages"
  cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout 🛎
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Install marmite 🫙
        run: cargo install marmite

      - name: Build site 🏗️
        run: marmite . site --debug

      - name: Setup Pages
        uses: actions/configure-pages@v5

      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
        with:
          path: 'site'

      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        id: deployment
        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4

Now commit and push to the main branch and wait for your blog to be published at

https://YOURUSER.github.io/REPONAME

Read Customizing Templates to learn how to customize the look and feel of your blog.

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