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How to tell Git which SSH Key to use - WPEngine Scenario with multiple accounts
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#Examples of using WP Engine to setup repositories. If both sites are on the same account you can use the same private key. | |
#Windows user file c:\users\user\.ssh\config | |
Host website1 | |
User git | |
Hostname git.wpengine.com | |
PreferredAuthentications publickey | |
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/key_rsa | |
IdentitiesOnly yes | |
Host website2 | |
User git | |
Hostname git.wpengine.com | |
PreferredAuthentications publickey | |
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/key_rsa | |
IdentitiesOnly yes | |
#Config file in GIT directory of local install website 1. We use "prod" as the alias for the remote | |
#Typical format for a WPEngine remote URL is [email protected]:production/websiteremote.git | |
#We can replace [email protected] with your host name setup. | |
#Here is an example of .git\config file for website1 project folder | |
[core] | |
repositoryformatversion = 0 | |
filemode = false | |
bare = false | |
logallrefupdates = true | |
symlinks = false | |
ignorecase = true | |
[remote "prod"] | |
url = website1:production/xxxprod.git | |
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/prod/* | |
[remote "staging"] | |
url = website1:production/xxxstaging.git | |
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/staging/* |
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@khoipro Yes each project folder has it's own .git/config, that's the basis of how git works. The trick is setting up the SSH config to define multiple websites to use the same git user but assign different hostnames.