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user312729
user312729

Reputation: 171

Php deployment to remote server using FTP from SVN after each commit

I coudn't find the solution for Php deployment to remote server using FTP from SVN after each commit. How can I upload to server by FTP the only added or edited files and delete the deleted files from SVN I think about write post-commit script...

Upvotes: 17

Views: 7384

Answers (9)

Antagonist
Antagonist

Reputation: 650

What do you say , you checkout from SVN to you'r server , ( create working copy from the SVN to the production server ) , and when ever you want to deploy a new version , you just connect to the server via SSH and type svn update , and there you go , only the latest files that have been edited are going to be deployed , and in a less then a second you have the latest version updated in production.

Upvotes: 1

Sangram Anand
Sangram Anand

Reputation: 10854

For our php project we use Jenkins a continuous integration tool. Our repository server is subversion. Whenever we do code changes, we use jenkins jobs to merge with the Beta staging & live environment and then deploy the application.

You can find more info on PHP application deployment using Jenkins on http://www.michaelpeacock.co.uk/blog/entry/jenkins-ci-an-introduction-for-php-developers

Upvotes: 2

jesal
jesal

Reputation: 7948

Have you looked into Beanstalk? It lets you deploy your Subversion and Git projects to your FTP server in one click. Its not free though. Another free alternative would be to setup a continuous integration server which would run a rake script to do your deployments.

Upvotes: 1

mindsupport
mindsupport

Reputation: 488

mybe cron + bash script which will be svn up ?

Upvotes: 1

Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 6732

If you don't want to manage the scripts by yourself, but just want something that works, you could try using a hosted service. I use Deploy, which works perfectly for the scenario you describe. And if you only have one project to deploy, it's even free.

Upvotes: 3

Big-G
Big-G

Reputation: 219

I use http://svn2ftp.com which is a SVN host that allows remote deployments to S/FTP on each commit!

Upvotes: 3

bisko
bisko

Reputation: 4078

The best way is (if your server is Linux based) to make an SVN Export to a new directory and then move the new directory to replace the old one (best way to do it is with symbolic links to different versions of the site). This way the site would be unavailable for a second or two, while if you rsync and have a big site, if you change drastically single file, the site would be broken until all files sync.

As for firing this procedure, the best way is to use svn hooks. Also consider doing some automated testing before release-ing (for basic functionality), because you can break your trunk pretty badly some time and the site would definitely be down :)

We are currently incorporating the approach described above in a production environment and the setup is as follows:

  • A commit goes in the trunk
    • Before it's actually commited, tests are ran on the code to see if everything works
  • After several commits a deploy comes (usually developer supervised)
    • Tests are run again
    • If they are successful - all ok
    • If they fail, old export is returned and the site is fully operational once again

It's all written in PHP, by using standart console commands.

Upvotes: 0

murze
murze

Reputation: 4103

You could use svn2web to upload every commited file to a server via Ftp. Svn2web is a collection of php-scripts that you can use as svn hooks. You can set the address, username and password of the ftp-server as an svn property on a directory. Works great!

Upvotes: 6

Pekka
Pekka

Reputation: 449415

Good question!

I'm not sure a PHP-only approach to syncronizing files that way exists.

I would usually use third-party FTP sync tools like rsync or ScriptFTP (commercial) to do the syncronizing part.

Take a look into phing, there are a number of FTP extensions (called "tasks") for it. I have no real world experience with them though.

This blog post offers a number of ideas and approaches: Using phing to sync files with shared hosting

Upvotes: 13

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