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Zola

This guide shows you how to deploy a Zola application to Edgio.

Example

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Prerequisites

Setup requires:

Install the Edgio CLI

If you have not already done so, install the Edgio CLI.
Bash
1npm i -g @layer0/cli@latest

Create a new Zola app

Step 1: Install Zola

Bash
1brew install zola
2# or
3sudo port install zola
To verify your new install:
Bash
1zola --version

Step 2: Create a New Site

Bash
1zola init myblog
You will be asked a few questions.
Bash
1> What is the URL of your site? (https://example.com):
2> Do you want to enable Sass compilation? [Y/n]:
3> Do you want to enable syntax highlighting? [y/N]:
4> Do you want to build a search index of the content? [y/N]:
For our blog, let’s accept the default values (i.e., press Enter for each question). We now have a myblog directory with the following structure:
Directory
1├── config.toml
2├── content
3├── sass
4├── static
5├── templates
6└── themes
For reference, by the end of this overview, our myblog directory will have the following structure:
Directory
1├── config.toml
2├── content/
3│   └── blog/
4│       ├── _index.md
5│       ├── first.md
6│       └── second.md
7├── sass/
8├── static/
9├── templates/
10│   ├── base.html
11│   ├── blog-page.html
12│   ├── blog.html
13│   └── index.html
14└── themes/

Step 3: Start the Zola server

Let’s start the Zola development server with:
Bash
1zola serve
2Building site...
3-> Creating 0 pages (0 orphan), 0 sections, and processing 0 images

Configuring your Zola app for Edgio

Create a package.json at the root of your project with the following:
Bash
1npm init

Initialize your project

In the root directory of your project run 0 init:
Bash
10 init
This will automatically update your package.json and add all of the required Edgio dependencies and files to your project. These include:
  • The @layer0/core package - Allows you to declare routes and deploy your application on Edgio
  • The @layer0/prefetch package - Allows you to configure a service worker to prefetch and cache pages to improve browsing speed
  • layer0.config.js - A configuration file for Edgio
  • routes.js - A default routes file that sends all requests to Zola.

Configure the routes

Update routes.js at the root of your project to the following:
JavaScript
1// This file was added by layer0 init.
2// You should commit this file to source control.
3

4import { Router } from '@layer0/core/router'
5

6export default new Router()
7  // Prevent search engine bot(s) from indexing
8  // Read more on: https://docs.layer0.co/applications/cookbook#blocking-search-engine-crawlers
9  .noIndexPermalink()
10 .static('public', ({ cache }) => {
11   cache({
12     edge: {
13       maxAgeSeconds: 60 * 60 * 60 * 365,
14       forcePrivateCaching: true,
15     },
16     browser: {
17       maxAgeSeconds: 0,
18       serviceWorkerSeconds: 60 * 60 * 24,
19     },
20   })
21 })
Refer to the Routing guide for the full syntax of the routes.js file and how to configure it for your use case.

Run the Zola app locally on Edgio

Create a production build of your app by running the following in your project’s root directory:
Bash
1npm run build
Test your app with the Sites on your local machine by running the following command in your project’s root directory:
Bash
10 dev
Load the site http://127.0.0.1:3000

Deploying

Create a production build of your app by running the following in your project’s root directory:
Bash
1npm run build
Deploy your app to the Sites by running the following command in your project’s root directory:
Bash
10 deploy
Refer to the Deploying guide for more information on the deploy command and its options.