Deploy to Siteground with Git

A Tutorial for deploying to Siteground with Git

Prerequisites:

• You must have basic Git knowledge.
• Configure SSH access from your local computer to Siteground. You need to have SSH access from you computer without entering a password. Use PuTTY Authentication Agent. Siteground Tutorial on this topic.
• Open the SSH Console. Test you SSH Connection ssh sitegroundXYZ.biz and do ls and git --version. Adjust for your environment. Leave your console open.
• Workstation with a local git Repository containig your website to deploy. It does not matter how the Repository it is setup.
• An empty directory for your public website. For this tutorial we call it mysite.com and place it at the root of the Siteground home directory.
• Open cPanel File Manager at Siteground.

Preparation

• cPanel File Manger: Create a server git repository directory for your website for example mysite.git at the root of the Siteground home directory.
• SSH Console: Change to mysite.git. Type git init --bare. This initializes an empty git repository at your site.
• cPanel File Manger: Change to mysite.git/hooks and add a New File named post-receive.
• cPanel File Manager: Edit post-receive and insert following code (adjust for your environment). This tells Siteground-Git to checkout to your public website directory after you push to it.

#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/userXX/mysite.com git checkout -f

• cPanel File Manger: Change Permissions for post-receive: Allow Execute to User, Group, and World.
• Workstation: Add a remote site to your git Repository: git remote add mysite ssh://[email protected]:18765/home/userxx/mysite.git (Adjust for your environment)

Deploy

• Workstation: git push mysite master this pushes the master branch from your local Repository to your Site.

Note:

This tutorial is written for general Git deployment to Siteground Sites. If you use a CMS (WP/Drupal....) Siteground has SG-Git and Staging specifically for these taks.

This procedure is based on:

Caio Vaccaro and Abhijit Menon-Sen