gust1n/git-autodeploy

Simple script for a one-line setup of a git powered web server. It creates the basic structure of your webroot and sets up repository for automatic deployment.

Git automatic deployment (PHP)

Follow these simple steps to setup your server with branch-specific git automatic deployment!

Description

Tired of setting up webservers and ftp-account? Do you use git to track your development but then feel stuck in old techniques when trying to deploy? Use this script to setup a webroot for automatic git deployment.

##What it does It creates a basic folder structure like this:

/your/passed/webroot/path
	/public_html
	/logs
	/repo

It then initializes a git repo inside the public_html folder but with a "remote" repo, located in the /repo folder. This is to separate your public content to important stuff like the repo.

Note that this does not use a --bare git repo, you can acually push directly to this repo. Read inline comments if your interrested in the techniques I've used.

Installation

1. Run git clone https://github.com/JockeGustin/git-autodeploy.git to download the actual script to your webserver.
2. If you dont want the standard structure with /public_html, /logs and /repo you should change the folder names (inside git-autodeploy-setup.sh)
3. Make the script excecutable: chmod +x git-autodeploy-setup.sh

Usage

1. Create the actual repo to be tracked at your service of choise (bitbucket, github, etc.)
2. Make sure the branch you want to track exists in your remote repository
3. (Optional, this is only needed when your repository is not public). Add the user www-data's (the script will set ownership to www-data, change if otherwise) ssh key to remote repositories deployment keys
4. Run ./git-autodeploy-setup.sh as www-data: sudo su www-data ./git-autodeploy-setup.sh [your args])
5. Just to make sure it works, run a manual deploy as www-data: sudo su www-data -c 'php ./deploy.php' (deploy.php is created by the script)
6. Set up your webserver (nginx/apache/whatever) to point to your new public_html folder
7. (Optional) Add a post commit servicehook to your remote repository and point it to http://yourwebsite.com/deploy.php
8. It now should autodeploy! You might not want to use this in production since your remote repo might be hacked. It's probably safer to manually deploy like in step 5.

The actual script

Use it like so: ./git-autodeploy-setup.sh [path] [url repo] [branch]

• [path] This is the path to the directory to be created, I often use the website name prefixed by some branch identifier, e.g. /srv/www/dev.jockegustin.se for the branch develop of my website.
• [url repo] This is the URL to your remote repository. Like git@github.com:blablabla...
• [branch] Branch to track. Defaults to master but can track any branchname you provide. Just make sure the branch actually exists