Websites on Dfinity

Developers
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How can we create and host websites on Dfinity?

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Right now this is most easily accomplished using webpack. Check out the phone book or superheroes example.

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Sorry I’m not a technical person
I think i posted here by mistake
Is there someone could help me build websites on Dfinity?

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Are you familiar with HTML/CSS/JavaScript? What exactly do you want to build?

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I’m familiar with HTML

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Any guide how to host already built react website on dfinity?

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This should get you going!

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I’m sorry if asking the same questions someone asked before already.
So, I have this folder structure:

dfx.json
public/
  index.html
  style.css

Here is the content of dfx.json

{
“canisters”: {
"www: {
“type”: “assets”,
“source”: [“public”]
}
}
}

When I try to deploy this project on local network (started with “dfx start”), I don’t get any errors on “dfx deploy”

But if I try to access then my HTML page, I get this error from accessing HTTP://127.0.0.1:8000/?canisterId=r7inp-6aaaa-aaaaa-aaabq-cai

An error happened:

_/<@http://127.0.0.1:8000/bootstrap-70b8f66975aa20b1974d.js:2:47697
async*_loadJs@http://127.0.0.1:8000/bootstrap-70b8f66975aa20b1974d.js:2:524975
_main@http://127.0.0.1:8000/bootstrap-70b8f66975aa20b1974d.js:2:525933
async*@http://127.0.0.1:8000/bootstrap-70b8f66975aa20b1974d.js:2:526235
r@http://127.0.0.1:8000/bootstrap-70b8f66975aa20b1974d.js:2:110
@http://127.0.0.1:8000/bootstrap-70b8f66975aa20b1974d.js:2:902
@http://127.0.0.1:8000/bootstrap-70b8f66975aa20b1974d.js:2:913

How can I debug what is wrong here? My HTML page loads without js console errors in the browser.

upd: found this comment What are front end canisters? - #5 by kpeacock, is it still valid?

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Replying to my own message, I was using old stable version 0.6.26 of dfx. But with latest 0.7.0-beta.8 everything works as expected

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I wish I had read your note earlier. Thank you. My deployment now works as well.

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Hi I try the same with

dfx --version
dfx 0.7.0-beta.8

If I try to deploy a simple html page with
dfx deploy --network=ic

I receive the following error??

dfx deploy --network=ic
Creating a wallet canister on the ic network.
The replica returned an HTTP Error: Http Error: status 404 Not Found, content type "text/html", content: <html>
<head><title>404 Not Found</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>404 Not Found</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.19.10</center>
</body>
</html>

What I have missing ?

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you can’t deploy to mainnet just yet. try fleek.co if you want to bypass that restriction.

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ok I see, I have tried fleek.co and that is working for me. I want try it by myself.

What is the reason why this is not working?

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The various subnets are being rolled out in stages, public subnets are next on the list and then deployment will be open to all—it shouldn’t be long now.

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Is it possible to directly deploy a website to the IC without using Fleek now?

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Application subnets have been added now, you can deploy directly.

For static websites, Kyle has written a great article on this here: Static Site Generators on the IC | Kyle Peacock's website

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More details on the application subnets: General Availability of Application Subnets