Hello, today in this post I will show you how I deploy Git project to the production (or development) server, and push changes to them automatically through git web hook wherever I made changes through the repo. I use this method to see live changes to the project server.

To be precise, I made this Ghost theme locally and when everything is okay, I push to the server and see live changes. So that I don't need to re-upload theme whenever changes I made. If you're in similar goal to archive, you can follow the tutorial below, or else, you can alter it based on your needs.

Requirement

In order to follow this tutorial, you need a remote server available and Ghost installation ready. Make sure you install Ghost through Ghost-CLI, as it much easier to install, to troubleshoot and much more.

1. VPS DigitalOcean referral link.
2. Ghost CMS install (follow installation instruction)

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In remote server

Login to your remote server (not root).
2. Create:

mkdir ~/deployment-folder.git
cd ~/deployment-folder.git
git init --bare
nano hooks/post-receive
chmod +x hooks/post-receive

Add the following in ~/deployment-folder.git/hooks/post-receive

#!/bin/bash
TARGET="/var/www/ghost/content/themes/mythemes" # deploy-folder
GIT_DIR="/home/user/deployment-folder.git"
BRANCH="master"

while read oldrev newrev ref
do
        # only checking out the master (or whatever branch you would like to deploy)
        if [[ $ref = refs/heads/$BRANCH ]];
        then
                echo "[+] Ref $ref received. Deploying ${BRANCH} branch to production..."
                sudo git --work-tree=$TARGET --git-dir=$GIT_DIR checkout -f
		echo "[+] Initializing folder .."
		sudo chown -R ghost:ghost $TARGET
		sudo chmod 755 $TARGET
		echo "[+] Restarting ghost service"
		cd /var/www/ghost ; ghost restart
        else
                echo "[-] Ref $ref received. Doing nothing: only the ${BRANCH} branch may be deployed on this server."
        fi
done

In local machine

1. In your repository:
   Change directory to git project folder:

cd mythemes

To set a new remote. In this case remote called as 'production' you can change to whatever you want.

git remote add production [email protected]:/home/user/deployment-folder.git
git checkout master
git push origin master # push to github
git push production master # push to server

To view (verify) remote:

git remote -v

On push to remote production, everything will automate and make changes to Ghost theme on web server.