How to Automatically Deploy from GitHub to cPanel

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Elevate your web development game by automating GitHub to cPanel deployments. With Sam Kirkland's FTP Deploy GitHub Action, you can have a smooth transition from coding to production, allowing you to focus on your code, not deployment hassles.

Please note that this method will require you to have a FTP Account to the

public_html

or subdomain folder already made for the Automatic Deployment. You can follow our FTP Account on cPanel Article on how you can create one.

How to Automatically Deploy from GitHub to cPanel

• On your GitHub Repository, go to the Repository's Settings and then go to the Actions' Secrets and Variables

• Create 3 New Repository Secrets:

• Go to the Repository's Actions and click on the set up a workflow yourself hyperlink. If you have previously made a different GitHub Action, click on the "New Workflow" button and you should be able to see the hyperlink.

• Copy the following code and paste it to the Action file contents, then Commit Changes.

undefined on: push name: 🚀 Deploy website on push jobs: web-deploy: name: 🎉 Deploy runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: 🚚 Get latest code uses: actions/checkout@v3 - name: 📂 Sync files uses: SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action@v4.3.4 with: server: ${{ secrets.FTP_SERVER }} username: ${{ secrets.FTP_USERNAME }} password: ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }}

Optionally, if you want to exclude certain folders or files from the Automatic Deployment, let's say a folder named

logs

and a file named

notes.txt

for example. You can paste the following lines at the end of the Action:

undefined exclude: | **/.git* **/.git*/** **/logs/** notes.txt

If you do require to exclude certain folders or files, make sure to also list down

**/.git*

and

**/.git*/**

like the above, as having the

exclude

key overwrites the default values.

So it will look something like this:

undefined on: push name: 🚀 Deploy website on push jobs: web-deploy: name: 🎉 Deploy runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: 🚚 Get latest code uses: actions/checkout@v3 - name: 📂 Sync files uses: SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action@v4.3.4 with: server: ${{ secrets.FTP_SERVER }} username: ${{ secrets.FTP_USERNAME }} password: ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }} exclude: | **/.git* **/.git*/** **/logs/** notes.txt

Now, every time you commit changes on the Repository. It will automatically deploy the changes to your website!

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Created By: Alecz R.

Updated on: 22/12/2023

Actualizado el: 31/07/2024