Set-up remote git repository on a cPanel server

These instructions are an adaption of these articles for my particular needs I hope this could help somebody else's:

The first thing to do is to install Git on the cPanel server.

sudo yum install git-core

Once you do that the rest of the process is split into three sections:

Server set-up
Local set-up (push commits)
Server (pull commits)

Server set-up

Note: First of all you need to have SSH access to your cPanel account.

ssh [email protected] (this is you connecting to your remote server)

Note: Your web directory is public_html then move up one level from there.

The remote repository you’re going to push to will be a separate directory than the actual you're deploying. Locally, the repository is always the code directory, but for remote deployments, we need to do things a bit differently.

mkdir repos && cd repos
mkdir your-project.git && cd your-project.git
git --bare init

We’ve now created a bare repository on our web server that we will use as our remote location.

The next step is to setup our post-receive hook. This is a script that will run every time you push code to the remote repository.

vi hooks/post-receive

Now, put this code into your post-receive file (replacing the path with the full path to where you want the code deployed).

#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/username/public_html git checkout -f

After that’s done, you’ll need to give the post-receive file execute rights so it’ll actually do the work:

chmod +x hooks/post-receive

Local set-up (push commits)

cd ~/Sites/myWebsite
git init
git add *
git commit -m 'Start of new project'
git remote add origin ssh://[email protected]:xxxx/~/repos/your-project.git
git push origin master

robertosanval/remote-git.md

Set-up remote git repository on a cPanel server

Server set-up

Local set-up (push commits)