PHP deployment to SSH server using Github action and bash script

In this tutorial we would lean how to deploy our PHP code to a remote server using github action .

Step 1.

ssh into remote server by

for Windows users use Power shell, while Mac users use Terminal.

yyyy : username
xxxx.xxxx.xxxx : Remote IP address
-p :Reference to a port
ZZZZ: port number

Step 2

In the root directory on your linux server create a bash file and write into by using


touch phpdeploy.sh && vi phpdeploy.sh


Step 3

To start typing on the vi editor type press the "a" key and input the following

echo "Deploying changes..."


cd /var/www/html

DIR="ECOMM"

if [ -d "$DIR" ]; then

  cd DIR
  echo "Pull update "
  git  pull 
fi

else 
 echo "Clone repo"
 git clone 
 https://username:password@github.com/username/projectname.git


fi

To exit insert mode on vi editor press escape key followed by shift column and type wq(save and quite).

Step 4

This is our final step, this involves creating our .github/main.yaml file in the root of our project.

name:project name
on:
  push:
    branches: main
jobs:
  build-and-deploy:
    name: Build and deploy next site
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
        - name: copy file via ssh key
        uses: appleboy/scp-action@master
        env:
          HOST:  XXXXXXX
          PORT:  XXXXX
          USERNAME:  XXXXX
          PASSWORD: XXXXXX
          command_timeout: 100m
          script: sh phpdeploy.sh

For every time your code is merger to "main" branch the yaml file above would execute.Thanks for reading.