I went and ordered two VPSes and a domain name. Apparently that order in and of itself got me flagged to be somehow suspicious by the registrar/hosting provider, so I'm hoping that can be sorted with them. Truth be told, I am impressed that a hobby I just bought into can fail right out of the gates like this. In the meantime, this is me writing up a local .html file and trying to unforget and learn a thing or two about web development. Don't expect too much.
So yea apparently my auto-fill needs some autocorrect on re-filling in my information at the hosting providers'
website. Stuff be working now, yo! Woop! I've received the VPS'ses,
and the domain name propagation is in progress as we speak. I've installed nginx manually and simply dumped my
static files on the machine and, not to brag, but I AM A THING ON THE INTERNET NOW!
todo: lots!
If you can read this I have got Ansible set up to a point where nginx and ssl are provisioned. Also statics are copied by ansible :) The directory structure below is a wall of shame that hopefully has me rethink my ansible setup soon
ansible % tree
.
├── bootstrap_inventory
├── bootstrap.yml
├── inventory
├── playbooks
│ ├── nginx-site.yml
│ ├── nginx.yml
│ ├── ssl.yml
│ ├── statics
│ │ ├── index.html
│ │ └── style.css
│ └── statics.yml
└── web.yml
What you're seeing is a bunch of scattered playbooks. Some are for bootstrapping a VPS and creating an ansible user, some are for provisionnig nginx and ssl. Most of the naming is going to get labyrinthy in a while. Also, it would have been suiting to move static files somewhere _outside_ of the ansible playbook provisioning madness. It is, however, late, and this worked.