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Metal Toad University #9: Going Live

By Dan Linn, Director of Development, March 28, 2013

This week we took our site live, but before we did that one of our students Lewis Notestine had created a new theme for our site: Space! We used Git version control to merge his changes into ours, then made a few modifications to the triggers and our new theme was in place.

We then bought a domain name from NameCheap.com and fumbled around with DNS settings. By the end of the class, we still couldn't see our site, but that was due to DNS propagation taking forever and a missing symlink. Once those things were corrected we were able to go to beekandbrooke.com to visit our site.

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