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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nSteps as below<\/h3>\n\n\n\n1. Login to server<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Open your terminal and login to your server using the following command <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ssh your_user@server_ip_address<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- replace server_ip_address<\/em> with the actual IP address of your server.<\/li>
- replace your_user <\/em>with the actual username. By default, the username is the same as the host machine, unless you specify a different agent.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Insert your password, and you are now logged to your server. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Installing GIT<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
To install git on your server, copy the following commands one at a time into the terminal and hit Return<\/code>. If prompted, insert your password.<\/p>\n\n\n\nsudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get install git<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n 3. Create a folder for your code to go into<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The source code to your website needs to be put somewhere. By convention, code goes inside the \/var\/www<\/code> directory. Navigate there using: <\/p>\n\n\n\ncd \/var\/www<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n Now, create a new folder to put the source code. For this tutorial, it will be called website_folder.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nsudo mkdir website_folder<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n Now, the full path to where you will put your source code is \/var\/www\/website_folder\/<\/code>. It is important to remember this path because you will need it when setting up your git repository. <\/p>\n\n\n\n4. Initialise a git repository on your server<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The git repository needs a folder to host it. A good practice is to call that folder website_name.git. Inside of \/var<\/code>, create a folder called repo, <\/em>whichwill contain your git repositories. One of which will be website.git<\/em>. To do so, run the following command: <\/p>\n\n\n\nsudo mkdir -p \/var\/repo\/website.git<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n Now, navigate to \/var\/repo\/website.git<\/code> and initialize your git repository: <\/p>\n\n\n\ncd \/var\/repo\/website.git\/\ngit init --bare<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n Now you have a bare repository for sharing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. Create Hook<\/h4>\n\n\n\nNote :<\/strong><\/p> A Hook is a program you can place in a hooks directory to trigger actions at certain points in git\u2019s execution. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Git has several hooks that it can call after different stages automatically. You will use the post-receive<\/em> hook which is called after your repository has received pushed code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After initialising your git repository, new folders should appear inside \/var\/repo\/website.git\/<\/code>. Navigate to hooks <\/em>and create a new bash called post-receive<\/em> using your preferred text editor. <\/p>\n\n\n\ncd hooks\nnano post-receive<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n Inside of the newly created file, you need to tell git where to put the files pushed. To do so, paste the following code: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
#!\/bin\/sh \ngit --work-tree=path_to_website_folder --git-dir=path_to_git_directory checkout -f name_of_branch<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n- replace path_to_website_folder<\/em> with the correct path
\/var\/www\/website_folder<\/code> which we created in point 3.<\/li>- replace path_to_git_directory <\/em>with the path to the bare git repository, which in this case is
\/var\/repo\/website.git<\/code>.<\/li>- name_of_branch is an optional parameter. If not specified, it defaults to
master<\/code>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n You can follow that script with any other commands of your choice, like restarting the server for instance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\nQuit the editor using ctrl+x<\/code>, and make sure to save the file as post-receive<\/em>.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n6. Make the script executable<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
In order for the operating system to execute the script, the latter needs to have executable permissions. To do so run the following command: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
chmod +x post-receive<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n The work on your server is done. You can now logout by simply running logout<\/code> and hitting Return<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n7. Push local code to the server<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
From your terminal, navigate to your local folder, and if it is not already a working git repository, initialise it as one. Then in order to configure git to push code to the remote server, you need to point it to its address. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
git init\ngit remote add name_of_repository ssh:\/\/your_user@server_ip_address\/path_to_git_directory<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n