On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:39:34 +0100 Christian Britz <cbr...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Sure, I think I was not precise in my posting. I am willing to add > something dynamic, and I was not sure if Apache and nginx support the > same toolkits. > > You and others brought in several static content generators, I will > consider that option too. I believe Apache and nginx both have fairly robust support for popular server-side languages like PHP, so many toolkits will work happily on top of either one. That said, you did mention "as secure as possible" in your initial request, and obviously no other option comes anywhere near static html pages in terms of security. Count me as another voice in favour of a static site generator. In particular, I've been playing around with Hugo, which won me over largely by virtue of using Markdown as its input format. With all respect to LaTeX (sorry Russell!), it's a staggeringly complex language with a steep learning curve. If you want a markup language that supports every typographical feature ever invented, you can't beat LaTeX. For basic web content with links, emphasis, and the occasional bulleted list, Markdown is enough tool for the job, and has the advantages of simplicity and vastly greater human-readability. I don't know about you, but I don't need a 747 to get to the corner store. Site generators like Hugo automatically generate nav menus, TOCs, and similar, so you get a lot of the convenience features of a blogging platform... just without the platform. If you use git, you can make a relatively uncomplicated, entirely self-hosted deploy pipeline that updates the site automatically whenever you make a commit to the website's git repo, as shown here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-hugo-site-to-production-with-git-hooks-on-ubuntu-14-04 And since the content is all plain Markdown files stored in a sensible directory structure on disk, it's very portable in case you want to move to some other platform later. There is definitely a bit of a learning curve with Hugo, though if you start with a pre-built "theme", it's not overly hard to get a site up and running now and delve into all the customizable details later. Cheers! -Chris
