Cookiecutter Static Site Template 1.0 Documentation

This is the documentation for the Cookiecutter static site template, hosted on GitHub. The template may be used by Cookiecutter to generate a project that will allow for easy and rapid deployment of a static website (a website comprised of only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).

This documentation is written like a walkthrough, intended for beginners with little to no programming experience. While this template relies on programming tools, using the template requires no programming.

If you are a developer, the Read Me document in the GitHub project is likely enough for you.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Installing Project Prerequisites
  • Section Goals
  • Python and pip
  • virtualenvwrapper
  • OpenSSL
  • jq
• Prologue: Signing up for Amazon Web Services
  • Section Goals
  • Securing your Account
  • Creating a User and applying permissions with a Group
• Generating a Static Website Project
  • Section Goals
  • virtualenvwrapper : to use, or not to use?
  • Generating the project without virtualenvwrapper
  • Generating the project with virtualenvwrapper
• Obtaining Security Certificates
  • Section Goals
  • Obtaining a Security Certificate from a Certificate Authority
• Deploying your Static Site to the Cloud
  • Section Goals
  • Preparing for Work
  • Creating a CloudFormation Stack
  • Pointing your Domain to Amazon’s Nameservers
  • Uploading Content to the Cloud
• Updating Your Static Website
• Contributing to the Cookiecutter Static Site Project

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page