Laravel / Github Webhooks

readme.md

Notes about how I used this.

1. Needed run ssh-keygen as www-data user to create the .ssh keys used by github.
2. Created a var/www/.ssh folder to place ssh key in, as well as allow Recognized hosts file creation.
3. Manually used git clone as user www-data to pull master branch down, and answered any prompts.

Once I did things as user www-data instead of ubuntu doing a git deploy worked like a charm.

Thanks to these two links..

http://jondavidjohn.com/git-pull-from-a-php-script-not-so-simple/

http://www.thisprogrammingthing.com/2013/automatically-updating-your-website-using-githubs-service-hooks/

event.php

Event::listen('github.webhook', function($payload)
{
	Log::info('Github Webhook Push Event fired');
	Log::info('Deploying new code because of a commit push by ' . $payload->head_commit->author->name);
	Log::info('Deploying commit ID : ' . $payload->after);

	// really only need to use this if you have ngrok running and testing the webhook code.
	
	if (App::environment('local'))
	{
		Log::info('Skipping github webhook on local machine');
		Log::info(shell_exec('ls -la'));
		return;
	
	}
  
  Log::info('Performing git pull');
	Log::info(shell_exec('cd /var/www/{project folder} &&  /usr/bin/git pull 2>&1')); 
  	 

});

route.php

Route::post('/github/webhook', function(){
	

	try{
		$xEvent = Request::header('X-GitHub-Event');
		$payload = json_decode(Request::getContent());
	}
	catch(Exception $e){

		Log::info('Error Handling Webhook content');
		return;
	}

	# Check if it's a push event, just in case we register for all events.
	if($xEvent !='push'){
		Log::info('Ignoring X-GitHub-Event' .$xEvent );
		return Response::json(['message'=>'ignored non push event'], 200);
	}
	
	# Check if it's a push to the master branch.
	if($payload->ref !='refs/heads/master'){
		Log::info('Ignoring push on branch' .$payload->ref);
		return Response::json(['message'=>'ignored push to branch :' .$payload->ref ], 200);

	}
	# Firte our webhook event handler.
	$event = Event::fire('github.webhook', [$payload]);
	return Response::json(['message'=>'processing push event deploying updates, thanks'], 200);

	
});