Risan Bagja

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Easy Git Deployment

Deploy a site with a plain git push to a bare repository on the server and a post-receive hook.

A simple way to deploy a site: push to a bare git repository on the server, and let a post-receive hook check out the files into the web root. Here example.com is the site and YOUR_IP is the server’s IP address.

The commands below run on the server, as a user with sudo access:

Terminal window
sudo usermod -aG deployer www-data
sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www
sudo chmod g+w -R /var/www


sudo -u www-data mkdir /var/www/example.com
sudo -u www-data mkdir /var/www/example.com/public
sudo chmod g+w -R /var/www/example.com/public


# Create a deployer user
sudo useradd -r -M -s /usr/sbin/nologin deployer


# Add user to deployer group
sudo usermod -aG deployer risan


# Create git repository directory
sudo mkdir /repo
sudo chown deployer:deployer -R /repo


# Create git repository
sudo -u deployer mkdir /repo/example.com
cd /repo/example.com
sudo -u deployer git init --bare
sudo chmod g+w -R /repo/example.com


# Setup post-receive hooks
sudo -u deployer vim /repo/example.com/hooks/post-receive
#####
#!/bin/bash
git --work-tree=/var/www/example.com/public --git-dir=/repo/example.com checkout -f
#####
sudo chmod u+x,g+wx /repo/example.com/hooks/post-receive


# On local machine
git remote add production ssh://risan@YOUR_IP:2270/repo/example.com
git push production master

Note that my SSH server listens on port 2270, see Setup New Ubuntu Server. The last two commands run on the local machine: add the server as a production remote, then push to it to deploy.