Notices by Ken Butler (nxskok@cupoftea.social)

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@skinnylatte that sounds like the old British 11-plus exams that determined whether you went to a Grammar School (academic) or a Secondary Modern (vocational). They don't exist any more. (I went to a Grammar School that was probably not supposed to exist any more, and it was terrible, at least until the upper years.)

@inthehands I seem to have come to the same place as you: a static website for actual course material, and our LMS only for assignments, marks, and anything else I want restricted to students actually registered for the course.

I use Quarto for my websites (and pretty much anything else I write). Example: https://stad29.ritsokiguess.site/

@skinnylatte the departure board looks as if it is in English (although it could be very franglais French, I guess).

Why is one of the trains a wolf? (loup = wolf)

@maxleibman @Heliograph the name "algorithm" comes from the *Iranian* mathematician Al-Khwarizmi (oh, the irony)

@xcorvis @inthehands or maybe even the *home* of a cute animal, since a website is the course home.

@skinnylatte there seems (seemed) to be an obsession with safety on reddit. People would ask about my city and my university campus (as safe as can be) like setting foot in them would get you assaulted right away.

@aligatr @inthehands this seems like it should be a real thing.

@whitequark @lina for some reason I am able to remember 4200 as the specific heat capacity of water, but all I remember is that your last number is called the "latent heat of vaporization".

@skinnylatte imo, "video killed the radio star" ripoff.

@whitequark I am certifiably an idiot.

I carefully rendered my static website *to the wrong folder*, so of course it could not be found. Now all is well, and sub1.swiss-soccer.net is alive and kicking.

Thank you for your patience and advice over the last couple of days.

I have a website in several sections that is currently on github pages, and now I think I have the opportunity to make each section its own repo and have each one be displayed on a subdomain, with the content on codeberg and using grebedoc.dev, and it looks as if I should be able to make it work. Thank you for making this possible.

Now, before I close all those tabs, I need to write down what ended up working...

@whitequark I wrote up some (rather detailed) notes for myself so that it will work again next time. It seemed obligatory to put them at http://sub1.swiss-soccer.net, so I did.

ETA: I would like to write something for grebedoc.dev that covers the subdomain part (and builds off what was written for "I own a domain").

@whitequark also, in the webhook, "test delivery" now gives me a 200 response.

and... (holding my breath): sub1.swiss-soccer.net displays....

404 not found.

Ah well, at least I'm closer. Let me see what's going on.

(When this is all done, I want to write up what worked for me, and if I may, share it with you and anyone else in the same boat.)

@whitequark yeah, something is up.

dig _git-pages-repository.swiss-soccer.net TXT returns the value of TXT (another codeberg repo), which I would expect, but dig _git-pages-repository.sub1.swiss-soccer.net does not.

Investigating.

@whitequark it looks as if in my "advanced DNS" (namecheap), the actual domain is *not* allowed to be in the "host" column, so for me that says just _git-pages-repository.sub1.

now dig _git-pages-repository.sub1.swiss-soccer.net TXT includes an ANSWER section with

_git-pages-repository.sub1.swiss-soccer.net. 1799 IN TXT "https://codeberg.org/nxskok/sub1.git"

which is a lot more encouraging.

@whitequark all right, giving it a shot.

@whitequark possibly relevant: on the webhook page, under Recent Deliveries, I clicked on one (they are apparently all the same), and it has a 401 response with this body:

unauthorized
- missing Authorization header
- failed to look up DNS repository allowlist: _git-pages-repository.sub1.swiss-soccer.net TXT
- domain sub1.swiss-soccer.net does not match wildcard *.grebedoc.dev

even though there is a CNAME with host sub1 and value grebedoc.dev. with ., and a TXT record with host _git-pages-repository.sub1.swiss-soccer.net and value https://codeberg.org/nxskok/sub1.git *and* per dig it seems to have propagated.

@whitequark thank you kindly.

I think the problem is what to put in the "value" part of the CNAME.

@whitequark all right, that sounds like something I can do. Thanks for the quick reply.

I'll give it a shot tomorrow and report back.

@whitequark progress, but still confusion.

Did the additional TXT record as described. Set up the webhook on the repo that's going to be published to the subdomain, as described. My DNS stuff now has two TXT records, one for the domain and one for the subdomain. It also has an A record and an AAAA record with the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for grebedoc.dev.

It seems to me that the TXT things are for authorization, not to send anyone looking for sub1.swiss-soccer.net to the right place. For that I seem to need a CNAME record. The host is going to be sub1, but for the value I have no idea what to put, except that it seems to be something to do with grebedoc.dev.

(Setting the CNAME value to grebedoc.dev enables me to ping and dig sub1.swiss-soccer.net, but not to access sub1.swiss-soccer.net. When I try, I get This site can’t provide a secure connection: sub1.swiss-soccer.net sent an invalid response.

Can someone help me feel less lost?