netlify-migration.md

Migrating tylergaw.com to Netlify

1. Deploy repo via Netlify dashboard

2. Set up with a spare domain to test redirects and subdomains before switching the primary domain

• Create namecheap alias record
• Wait
• Be unsure if I set up the DNS correctly
• Wait longer
• I guess it works now?
• Create a CNAME record for www to lucid-swartz-72ad0e.netlify.com. to redirect www to bare domain
• SSL takes some time. Wait more

3. Subdomains for previous versions

v1.tylergaw.com, v2.tylergaw.com, et. al

• Asked about doing tag deploys https://twitter.com/tylergaw/status/1205973982568161282 Seems like it's not a thing yet
• ^ took a different direction instead of writing manual deploy code
• Create a new Netlify site for each subdomain. Since they are all from the same repo, I just download the zip file from the git tag
• Create cname for each subdomain that points to the site's url
• v3 uses ssi. Was using nginx ssi, and years before that apache ssi. Netlify doesn't have support for that, so had to update the site code
• It's cool that they automatically handle /good-path when the file is good-path.html. I didn't have to add redirects
• Couldn't figure out how to make configuration netlify.toml work with drag and drop deploy. Needed to build those sites locally and deploy the build directory; v4 and v5
• Learned about and set up redirects for lab projects
• Used snippet injection to add base for certain projects in lab
• Added config to allow cors requests of font file from stackoverflow
• Audio API cross origin issue stackoverflow "MediaElementAudioSource outputs zeroes due to CORS access restrictions"
• Remove all Google Analytics

4. Transfer dns

Change DNS to namecheap basic dns instead of using custom slicehost dns. Wait longer