Simple PHP GIT deploy script

Automatically deploy the code using php and git.

Requirements

git, rsync, and tar binaries are required on the server that's running the script (server machine).

Also, the system user that's running PHP needs to have the right ssh keys to access the remote repository (If it's a private repo) and have the required permissions to update the files on the server machine.

Usage

• Configure deploy.php and put it somewhere that's accessible from the Internet.
• Configure your git repository to call this script when the code is updated. The instructions for GitHub and Bitbucket are below.

GitHub

1. Go to https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY/settings/keys and add your server SSH key (only needed for private repositories)
2. Go to https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY/admin/hooks
3. Select the WebHook URLs service hook
4. Enter the URL to your deployment script e.g. http://example.com/deploy.php?sat=YourSecretAccessTokenFromDeployFile
5. Click Update Settings

Bitbucket

1. Go to https://bitbucket.org/USERNAME/REPOSITORY/admin/deploy-keys and add your server SSH key (only needed for private repositories)
2. Go to https://bitbucket.org/USERNAME/REPOSITORY/admin/services
3. Add POST service
4. Enter the URL to your deployment script e.g. http://example.com/deploy.php?sat=YourSecretAccessTokenFromDeployFile
5. Click Save

Generic GIT

1. Configure the SSH keys
2. Add a executable .git/hooks/post_receive script that calls the script e.g.

#!/bin/sh
echo "Triggering the code deployment ..."
wget -q -O /dev/null http://example.com/deploy.php?sat=YourSecretAccessTokenFromDeployFile

Done!

Next time you push the code to the repository that has a hook enabled, it's going to trigger the deploy.php script which is going to pull the changes and update the code on the server machine.

For more info, read the source of deploy.php.

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