Host your Scratch projects

The Scratch web site is easy and it likely meets the needs of most people, but we're not limited to hosting our projects on the Scratch web site. We can use our own web servers.

There are several reasons to self-host our Scratch projects. Your classroom or community center may have limited access or bandwidth, which makes uploading and viewing projects on the Web difficult. You might prefer to keep the projects private or not allow others to remix the content. Or, you might simply want to build web site traffic to your own web site. Regardless of the reason, we can do it.

This is a relatively advanced topic for our book, and I'll assume you know something about FTP and web servers to complete this section. More importantly, it requires you to have access to a web server.

Install files to a web server

To host our own projects, we need to complete the following tasks:

• Install the Java support files, which are available from the Scratch web site

• Upload a Scratch project...