Git Deployment for Hosting: Push Code Directly to Your Server

# Generate SSH key (if you don't have one)
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your@email.com"

# Copy your public key to the server
ssh-copy-id user@your-server-ip

# Test connection (should log in without password)
ssh user@your-server-ip

# Create the bare repository
mkdir -p /home/deploy/repos/mysite.git
cd /home/deploy/repos/mysite.git
git init --bare

# Create the web root (where your site lives)
mkdir -p /var/www/mysite

#!/bin/bash
set -e

TARGET="/var/www/mysite"
GIT_DIR="/home/deploy/repos/mysite.git"
BRANCH="main"

while read oldrev newrev ref
do
    if [ "$ref" = "refs/heads/$BRANCH" ]; then
        echo "🚀 Deploying $BRANCH to $TARGET..."

        # Checkout the latest code
        git --work-tree=$TARGET --git-dir=$GIT_DIR checkout -f $BRANCH

        # Navigate to project directory
        cd $TARGET

        # Install dependencies (Node.js example)
        npm ci --production

        # Build the project
        npm run build

        # Restart the application (PM2 example)
        pm2 restart mysite --update-env

        echo "✅ Deployment complete!"
    fi
done

chmod +x /home/deploy/repos/mysite.git/hooks/post-receive

# Add the production remote
git remote add production user@your-server-ip:/home/deploy/repos/mysite.git

# Deploy!
git push production main

# You'll see the hook output in your terminal:
# 🚀 Deploying main to /var/www/mysite...
# ✅ Deployment complete!

name: Deploy to Production

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20
          cache: 'npm'
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm run lint
      - run: npm test

  deploy:
    needs: test  # Only deploy if tests pass
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20
          cache: 'npm'
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm run build

      - name: Deploy via rsync
        uses: burnett01/rsync-deployments@6.0.0
        with:
          switches: -avzr --delete
          path: dist/
          remote_path: /var/www/mysite/
          remote_host: ${{ secrets.SERVER_IP }}
          remote_user: deploy
          remote_key: ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}