Keera - static site

Plain static pages, no build step. Thirty content .html files - ten pages in German at the root, English under en/, French under fr/ - plus 404.html, the shared files under assets/, and robots.txt, sitemap.xml, llms.txt, CNAME and the IndexNow key file at the root.

Edit the HTML by hand. A change to a page's shell - header, footer, contact form, metadata - has to be made in all three language copies. AGENTS.md has the content and design rules the pages are written to, and says which script runs on which page.

Deploy to GitHub Pages

.github/workflows/deploy.yml publishes the repo on every push to main (and on manual dispatch). It copies the checkout into _site/, minus .git/, .github/, _site/ itself, AGENTS.md and README.md, and hands that to actions/upload-pages-artifact and actions/deploy-pages. Nothing is generated, so the deployed bytes are the committed bytes.

After the deploy, the workflow pings IndexNow with the URLs of the pages the push changed (every page on a manual run). Bing shares those pings with the other IndexNow engines, and ChatGPT search, Copilot and DuckDuckGo answer from Bing's index. The key is the root file 4f788c756ba49f94dc46567ec756122c.txt, whose name and content are the key; it is public by design. A failed ping is logged and does not fail the run.

Google does not take IndexNow. It reads sitemap.xml, which robots.txt names; submit the sitemap once in Google Search Console and in Bing Webmaster Tools, which is also where both report what they indexed.

Set-up, once, under Settings -> Pages:

• Source: GitHub Actions, not "Deploy from a branch".
• Custom domain: keera.ch, which is also what CNAME in the repo says. The two have to agree; deleting CNAME unpublishes the site from that name.
• Enforce HTTPS: on, once the certificate is issued.

DNS at the registrar: four A records for the apex at 185.199.108.153, 185.199.109.153, 185.199.110.153 and 185.199.111.153 (plus the matching AAAA records if the zone carries IPv6), and a CNAME for www pointing at <owner>.github.io.. Pages then redirects www.keera.ch to the apex itself.

What the host no longer does

The site used to sit on an Infomaniak Apache host, where .htaccess set the response codes, the redirects and the cache lifetimes. GitHub Pages serves static files and nothing else, so that file is gone and its five jobs landed as follows:

• The custom 404 needs no configuration: Pages serves a root 404.html for any missing path, which is exactly what ErrorDocument did.
• No directory listings - Pages never lists a directory.
• http and www onto https://keera.ch is the "Enforce HTTPS" setting plus the www CNAME above.
• The language redirect moved into assets/js/language.js, on the German root only. It is client-side now, so it skips crawlers explicitly - AGENTS.md under Languages has the detail.
• The cache lifetimes are gone. Pages sends Cache-Control: max-age=600 on everything and takes no configuration, so there is no long-lived asset cache; a ten-minute lifetime revalidates a changed asset on its own.