auto-git-deploy-to-cpanel.md

Use cPanel to Host Your Git Repository and Deploy Automatically

Below are the variables for the examples. Change these to suit your needs/preference.

The hostname is: your.host.name The SSH port is: 222 The cPanel account name is: accountname The local Git directory is called: localname The remote Git repo will be stored in a directory called: www.git shortcut is what I will call the optional ssh shortcut. ~/Sites is your local development directory (so ~/Sites/localname will be the full path to your local Git.)

Step 0: Create an SSH key on your local machine.

Step 1: Add your SSH public key to the cPanel account.

In the “Security” section click on SSH Shell Access Click “Manage SSH Keys” Click “Import Key” Copy and paste the key into the public key text box. (Hint: on a Mac, use this command from the Terminal to copy your public key, in this example, it is called “id_rsa”.) pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub Click “Import” Go back to the Manage SSH Keys page and click “Manage Authorization”. Click “Authorize”.

Step 2: Set up the remote Git repository.

Log into the remote server via SSH…

ssh -p222 accountname@your.host.name

Hint: I like to set up shortcuts in my SSH config file (~/.ssh/config). For example, to make a shortcut named for the localname…

Host shortcut HostName your.host.name Port 222 User accountname

So then you can simply log in with: ssh shortcut

From the account root (above public_html), set up a directory (called www in this example) for your Git repo..

mkdir -p ~/www.git && cd $_
git init --bare

Add a command in the post-receive hook…

cat > hooks/post-receive << EOF
#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/accountname/public_html git checkout -f
EOF

Change permissions on that same file…

chmod +x hooks/post-receive;

Step 3: Add the remote Git repo.

Now, back on the local machine move to your local repository (or create one if need be)…

cd ~/Sites/localname

Add a remote Git repo that points to your server. (i will call mine www as above, but you can call it “production” or whatever you want it need not match the repo name)…

git remote add www ssh://accountname@your.host.name/home/accountname/www.git/

Or if you are using the SSH config hint from above, simply…

git remote add www ssh://shortcut/home/accountname/www.git/

Push to the server…

git push www +master:refs/heads/master

To update the site in the future, just use…

git push www

…Or any Git GUI will do for the pushing.