So you generated & downloaded an HTML from SheetComm...now what? Thankfully, SheetComm’s standalone HTML's are super easy to use and can be hosted virtually anywhere.
<aside> 💡 As a preliminary step, you can open the HTML file locally in your browser (ie. Chrome, Safari) — just to make sure everything looks right.
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We recommend the following steps for going live with a site generated by GumSheet:
The easiest (and cheapest) way to host an HTML website is often using Github Pages, which offers custom domain support. Simply download all your files into a folder, create a new Github Pages repo, and follow the instructions here:
If you don't choose Github Pages to host your website, you may need to take the following additional step to ensure all links between your landing pages work properly:
In order to set up your URLs properly so that /example
resolves to the same page as /example.html
you may need to add the following .htaccess
file to the root directory of your website:
```sql
#html
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\\.]+)/$ $1.html [NC,L]
RewriteRule (.+)/$ /$1.html [L,R]
```
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💡 **Important:** If you use Github Pages (or some other hosts), this URL routing may be automatically pre-configured for you, in which case you can skip this step!
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