GitHub AutoDeploy

Author: Afaan Bilal (@AfaanBilal)
Author URL: Google+

Project Page: afaan.me/github-autodeploy

Introduction

GitHub AutoDeploy is a PHP script to easily deploy web app repositories on git push or any other hook. I wrote this when a relentless search for something which could do this proved fruitless. I needed to automatically deploy a web app to a shared server on which I had no SSH access, as is required to achieve this. The other way was to setup a git repo on the server and execute a git pull on each git push for the git server, but since it was a shared server, there was no exec or shell_exec for me either.
So, I had to write it myself.

Features

• No SSH access required.
• No shell access required.
• Fully compatible with shared servers.
• Currently, only public repos are supported.

Setup

1. Download github-autodeploy.php.
2. Update the GitHub repo link by replacing [USERNAME] and [REPO].
3. Set the deploy directory by replacing [DEPLOY_DIR] relative to the script.
4. Set your timezone.
5. Upload the script to your server.
6. On GitHub, add a WebHook to your repo for a push event (or any other) and set it to the uploaded script.
7. You're done!

Now, whenever you git push to your github repo, it will be automatically deployed to your web server!

Adding a WebHook

You must have administrative access to the repo for adding WebHooks

1. Go to your GitHub repo » Settings » Webhooks & services.
   
2. Click Add webhook.
   
3. Enter the URL of the github-autodeploy.php script in the Payload URL field.
   
4. Leave everything else as is, click Add webhook.
   
5. You're done!
   

Contributing

All contributions are welcome. Please create an issue first for any feature request or bug. Then fork the repository, create a branch and make any changes to fix the bug or add the feature and create a pull request. That's it! Thanks!

License

GitHub AutoDeploy is released under the MIT License. Check out the full license here.