Pretty Handy Deployment™

Have you ever wished deploying to a shared Apache/PHP host could be as easy as deploying to Heroku? Well, wish no more. Follow this simple guide and your life will instantly get better.

• Environment variables
• Autamatic deployment with Git
• Using Composer for dependency management

This setup has been confirmed to work on DreamHost. Your mileage may vary.

1. Make sure you have SSH enabled on your hosting user
2. SSH into your hosting account
3. CD into your domain directory and make sure it's empty
4. Clone this repo (git clone https://github.com/stephendavis89/PHD.git .)

Environment variables can be set with putenv in a root-level PHP file named environment.php. An example variable is provided. Make sure to configure your domain to use myproject.com/deploy as its web root.

TIP: If you're using a web framework such as Slim or Laravel, use myproject.com/deploy/public as the web root instead.

1. Create a git directory (mkdir -p ~/git && cd ~/git)
2. Create a project directory (mkdir -p myproject.git && cd myproject.git)
3. Create an empty remote Git repository (git init --bare)
4. Create the post-receive hook

mv hooks/post-receive.sample hooks/post-receive
chmod +x hooks/post-receive

5. Edit the post-receive hook (nano hooks/post-receive) and insert the following content:

#!/bin/sh

echo "Deploying to production..."
GIT_WORK_TREE=~/myproject.com/deploy git checkout -f
echo "Success!"

6. Add the remote repository to your project From your local project directory, run:

git remote add production ssh://user@host/~/git/myproject.git

To set up an SSH key for password-less deployment, follow this excellent guide.

To get Composer working on DreamHost, follow this guide.

To access the composer binary directly, run this from the directory you installed Composer into:

mkdir -p ~/bin
mv composer.phar ~/bin/composer

And add this to your .bashrc:

export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

Don't forget to add composer installation to your post-receive hook for maximum good times:

(cd ~/myproject.com/deploy && exec composer install --no-dev)