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Using GitHub Pages with a custom domain: Namecheap Edition

As often happens, I found the official documentation and forum answers to be "close, but no cigar", and so had to experiment a little to get things working.

The main problem for me was a lack of concrete configuration examples. That's not entirely GitHub's fault: having migrated from Google Domains to Namecheap in the middle of this project, I was once again reminded of how many different ways there are to do things in the name service universe [1].

Although you'd think the simplest setup would be to merely configure for the subdomain case (https://www.example.com), in my experience using the apex domain (https://example.com) instead resulted in fewer complications.

Procedure

So here's my recipe for using a custom domain with GitHub pages where Namecheap is the DNS provider:

This is an unofficial manual for the couchdb Python module I wish I had had.

Installation

pip install couchdb

Importing the module

#Laravel 5 Simple ACL manager

Protect your routes with user roles. Simply add a 'role_id' to the User model, install the roles table and seed if you need some example roles to get going.

If the user has a 'Root' role, then they can perform any actions.

Installation

Simply copy the files across into the appropriate directories, and register the middleware in App\Http\Kernel.php

Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

Twitter

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-two-python.html
	import pika
	import sys

	connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(
	host='localhost'))
	channel = connection.channel()

	message = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:]) or "Hello World!"

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import bz2
	import datetime
	import os
	import sys
	import time
	import urllib2
	import warnings

	sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
	sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
	sudo mkswap /swapfile
	sudo swapon /swapfile

	swapon -s
	free -m

	import requests
	from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as BS
	import re

	def get_dl_page(package_id):
	get_request = requests.get('https://apkpure.com/search?q=' + package_id)
	page = BS(get_request.text)
	# it is assumed that the first search result is the thing we are looking for
	link_ps = page.findAll('p', {'class': 'search-title'})
	page_link = link_ps[0].a.get('href')

	import facebook
	from collections import Counter
	import requests

	likes_counter = Counter()

	# Get temp tokens at: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
	USER_ACCESS_TOKEN = ""

	client = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token=USER_ACCESS_TOKEN, version='2.5')

	#!/usr/bin/env php
	<?php
	//usage: php envato-screenshots-downloader.php /path/to/save/screenshots http://url/to/screenshots/page
	set_time_limit(0);
	$dir = $argv[1];
	$source = $argv[2];
	print_r($argv);
	mkdir ($dir);
	$src = file_get_contents($source);
	$pattern = '/src="(https:\/\/0.s3[a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.\/%]+)"/i';