How to set up Git Hooks
This is a note about what I've done for setting up Git Hooks. The website is daishodesign.com. domain is already taken and setup.
How to create a server block
Create a folder site-daishodesign.git under /var/repo/
Initiate Git with bare flag
git init --bare
The commande above should have created the directory hooks/.
Navigate into it.
Create it under hooks/
sudo vim post-receive
Open it with vim then add this block of code.
#!/bin/sh
git --work-tree=/var/www/daishodesign.com/html --git-dir=/var/repo/site-daishodesign.git checkout -f
Create symlink from server block file to a directory sites-enabled
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/daishodesign.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Give execution permissions to post-receive file
sudo chmod +x post-receive
Go back to local and navigate to the root directory of your application. Then add a git remote for production
git remote add production ssh://root@<YOUR_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS>/var/repo/site-daishodesign.git
That's it.
Now you can push a commit with
git push origin master
to your Github repo and you can also push all your changes to production with
git push production master
It's super fast compared to sending all files using a FTP software. Not only it's faster but also safer because you can't miss files that you changed.
If you add a new user, you have to change ownership of your directories and files from root to new user. (Leave $USER as it is. It echoes out current user name)
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www and suod chown -R $USER:$USER /var/repo