Anvil: Web Apps with Nothing but Python Transcripts
Chapter: Hosting on a custom domain
Lecture: Hosting introduction
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It's super fun to build a website but if only you get to use it, how much fun is it really? Obviously, we typically build websites
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for a whole bunch of people. In our wildest dreams, maybe millions of people. But the first step in order to getting our app available
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to anyone else is to give it a domain make it available to people. So there's a couple of options that we have.
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We saw that we could already host our app on that funky fresh fruit song or something like that, domain, .anvil.app.
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And that's fine, that's a pretty good public option. But if you're really going to build a site and make it professional
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especially if you're going to do something like e-commerce as we'll talk about soon you definitely want it to be on its own domain.
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So here's our app, but notice this time there's a couple of really sweet things going on. One, it has HTTPS, it's encrypted.
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And two, it's on its own domain. Now, I decided to make this a sub domain of talkPython.com just so that I don't have to deal
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with creating another domain and paying for it year after year to keep it around. It's easy to add it just as an extra sub domain
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health, for talk Python. In our demo, we're actually going to use fitnessd as in what you see right here, fitness, fitnessd as the sub domain there.
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But okay, so this is our goal of this chapter. To get the Anvil app that we built up here and running like this. You'll see it's not too hard.
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It does take a little bit of patience because, well, DNS takes time. There's some Let's Encrypt HTTPS certificates
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that take a little bit of time, things like that. But it's not hard and we'll do it right away.