http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279169/deploy-php-using-git http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto Couple of options through remote branches and post-update http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment13http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment13Sun, 15 May 2011 03:00:05 GMTAsim, You don't checkout from multiple locations. That is a recipe for disaster when you have those things change at a different rate. Logs / data are not in the repo, config files _ARE_. http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment12http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment12Wed, 11 May 2011 06:05:26 GMTNo offense seems like your doing it wong. Your source control should not be your deployment process though they may be interconnected. But if its to the point where you are precompiling binaries and you dont actually care about building the source code. It seems that the git push is just a by product and not the end goal of the process. If thats the case seems trivial to create some, then would think a better solutions is you call some script, powershell or otherwise, that does the deploy and as part of its process does a git push. Cheif benefit of which its obvious and trivial how to create a script that does a git push as part of a deployment process, while seems figuring out how to do a git push that kicks off some scripted deployment process is not. http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment11http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment11Mon, 09 May 2011 19:56:34 GMTThis process becomes trickier when you wish to check things out from multiple repos (e.g. framework, third party scripts and your web app). Also, managing stateful files (logs, app config, etc) isnt straightforward either. I am yet to see a tool that coud do all of that gracefully and reliably. Most of my projects are on linux so i am not sure how relevant this will be, but in my experience i have found that having a small bespoke script that does what you want is quite a nice wee and scalable solution. The script can be triggered by whichever way you wish. It can then pull code from repos in a temp dir, compile if required, handle local state / config files appropriately and finally do a simple file copy operation to ur web dir. Quite similar to what Ken described. I've mentioned a brief overview of a similar script i wrote a few years back under 'using depro' here: [www.fuzedbulb.com/.../version-controlling-wordp...](http://www.fuzedbulb.com/2011/version-controlling-wordpress/)http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment10http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment10Mon, 09 May 2011 18:04:05 GMTI've done something similar in the past... see my blog article: [thecodedecanter.wordpress.com/category/deployment/](http://thecodedecanter.wordpress.com/category/deployment/) Also see here: [wishfulcode.com/.../managing-code-and-configura...](http://wishfulcode.com/2010/06/22/managing-code-and-configuration-synchronisation-in-an-iis-web-farm/) http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment9http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment9Sun, 08 May 2011 13:26:38 GMTRob, I agree that git over http is way simpler, especially with: [https://github.com/JeremySkinner/git-dot-aspx](https://github.com/JeremySkinner/git-dot-aspx) That said, your process has a LOT of manual processes involved. Ken, Thanks for the hint, I found the git.aspx project, and it has drastically simplified things. http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment8http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment8Sun, 08 May 2011 05:57:47 GMTWe do Visual Studio Publish into a SVN repository. We then have a working copy of the repository on the production server, which we update. Finally we run ViceVersa to sync the working copy with the production copy. So it takes 3 manual steps, but the whole process can usually be performed in under a 1 minute. You get both the ViceVersa and SVN logs in case you need them, and rolling back is as simple as pulling down the appropriate SVN revision and rerunning ViceVersa. http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment7http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment7Sun, 08 May 2011 00:26:21 GMTMy org uses CruiseControl.NET. We do a push to a special "Prod" repo, and it monitors for changes. Once it sees a change it runs our entire deployment scripts (DB updates, code deployment to web servers, uninstalling / updating / installing a Windows Service, etc). You get nice build logs and a web interface to review if an issue occurs. http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment6http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment6Sat, 07 May 2011 20:42:11 GMTGit has post-push hooks (post-receive and post-update, to be precise) which are executed on the *remote* host (your web server in this case) after the repository has been updated following a push. This takes care of 1 and 2, and since the hook can be as complex as needed 3 should be OK. The only issue might be 4, I don't really see how you would handle it. An alternative would be to use a deployment tool (e.g. fabric, or capistrano) instead of `git push`. They can perform arbitrary operations on both side, so they can handle rollback if you wish to. http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment5http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment5Sat, 07 May 2011 20:08:10 GMTWe also use TeamCity + MSDeploy. It works wonderfully. We stopped publishing on each push though because we're using AWS and we're stingy on traffic :) TeamCity can either check periodically (it checks every minute on our servers) or it can be set up with web hooks. I don't know how to do it with Git, since we using Mercurial and Kiln - and Kiln allows you to do that rather easily. http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment4http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment4Sat, 07 May 2011 20:08:01 GMTI tried a few approaches successfully in the past 1. the dropbox way. you do not wait 5 minutes. the update is almost instantaneous. that's how I deploy my blog. I also use this to get daily db backups back from the server to my machine. 2. post-commit hook on a github hosted source, that called an endpoint on the site causing it to get the latest source from github, build, and replace the existing site. 3. post commit hook on a github hosted 'released binary' package. the site then just git-pull and gets updated. 4. btw it is quite easy these days to setup git-http on your server (over https) and setup the post-commit hook to deploy locally. there are quite a few implementations in ruby and .NET. http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment3http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment3Sat, 07 May 2011 19:47:49 GMTAs you can imagine I've been trying to solve this very issue for a long time and I have a prototype working if you want to help (I'll Skype you). You can push to Git over HTTP which means you can have a web site on the other end - which means you can do *some* of the things for deployment. It goes like this - 1) Push to website 2) Website drops changes to a Bare repo 3) You CD into a predefined directory on your server 4) You pull from the bare It *almost* works - but as you can imagine there are some security issues with all of this directory work :). http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment2http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment2Sat, 07 May 2011 19:22:46 GMTWe use TeamCity and MSDeploy for deployments, along with Mercurial. For our main system, we push code to the repository and let the build server deploy it. This takes advantage of the multiple config files feature of VS 2010. We're also using the new database project to change the DB schema when needed. We have a couple of build projects that check a different Mercurial repository such as Dev, Stable, Production, etc. TeamCity always allows you to run a build manually, so that's what we do when we can't wait five minutes for it to notice the source control change. For small sites without a build server we have a copy of the repository as the site and do a Mercurial pull when we want to deploy it. This is super easy, but doesn't give us the config file transformations (although we could probably add a hook to do so). http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment1http://ayende.com/4835/git-for-web-application-deployment#comment1Sat, 07 May 2011 18:22:14 GMT