Gain insights into web deployment, explore essential steps for going live, discover tools, security measures, SEO techniques, and deploy a sample site using Google Cloud Platform.

We can find a plethora of content on the internet related to web development in many different languages. However, what are we supposed to do once our web application has been created? The next step is to make it live on the world wide web. This course takes us deep into the world of web deployment, specifying all the necessary steps needed to make our website available to users. 

Learn about the different tools, security measures and deployment platforms available to us in the modern era. This comprehensive guide also teaches us about important web concepts such as Search Engine Optimization and server maintenance. Furthermore, for your ease, we'll be deploying a sample website using the Google Cloud Platform! So get your web applications ready because they are about to go live.

A Complete Guide to Launching Your Website: From Local to Live

Secure Shell, popularly known as **SSH**, is a platform which allows us to remotely control our server over an internet connection. It is a terminal based protocol system which is available on macOS, Linux and Windows.

SSH was originally developed because of the security concerns regarding its predecessor, **Telnet**. Server communication is now much more secure because of the data encryption methods used by the SSH protocol. In terms of functional power, SSH allows us to basically control every aspect of the server running our website.



Now, let's take a look at how we can set up the SSH terminal on our machine.

# The SSH Environment
SSH comes in-built with Linux and macOS. We can access it using the terminal. For Windows, there are several SSH clients like **PuTTY** which allow us to work with SSH.

## Basic Commands
The most important SSH command is to open a connection to our remote server. Here is the command we need to run on the terminal:

    <user>@<domain name or IP address>

First, we need to define the `user`, which is the account we want to use. The next step is to mention the domain name or the IP address of our website. For example, the root user would open up a connection on our platform this way:

    root@educative.io

Or we could use the IP address like this:

    root@192.1.1.1

We must then put in our password to access the server. This connection is secured by SSH using **hashing**, **symmetric encryption** and **asymmetric encryption**. Without getting into details, all we need to know is that this is a big improvement over Telnet's security measures.

Below, we've listed a few more basic operations that can be performed on the SSH terminal.



| Command | Purpose | Syntax |
| ---- | ---- | ---- |
| ls   | Display all the files and directories on the server machine. | `ls` (basic) or `ls -a` (shows hidden files as well)|
| mkdir | Create a new directory. | `mkdir newDirectory`|
| cd | Move into the specified directory. | `cd anyFolder` |
| touch | Create a new file with a specified format | `touch newDoc.txt` |
|  rm | Delete a file or directory. Use `rm -r` to remove all files in the directory being deleted | `rm newDoc.txt`|
| pwd | Print the current directory we are working in | `pwd` |
| cp | Copy files and directories. | `cp source destination` (we can use several flags before `source`)|
| scp | Copy files/folders to and from the server. | `scp filename host:path` (`host` can be the host domain name or the IP address)|
| mv | Move files and directories. | `mv source dest` |
| find | Search for a file in a given directory. It can also return multiple files. | `find . -name file.txt` |

This list is not exhaustive by any means. For more details, visit Secure Shell's [official website](https://www.ssh.com/ssh/command/).




## Port Number
By default, SSH connects to **port 22**, but we can always choose a different port if we want. Opting for another port is also useful because hackers will only try to attack port 22. 

To change the port number for SSH, we run the following command:

    ssh -p port user@server

## Git Repositories
If Git is installed on our machine as well as the server machine, we can create private Git repositories using SSH. We simply have to move to the desired directory on the server and run this command:

    git init

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Now that we've understood SSH, we'll move on to the File Transfer Protocol  and learn how it is incorporated with SSH.




In this lesson, we will learn how to communicate with our server remotely.

Introduction

Going Live

Domain Name

Web Hosting

Publish Your Website

Testing & Maintenance

Post Launch Checklist

Where to go from here

Working with Secure Shell