Use a deployment method for the website

[ms-studio]

I think it would be great if we would use a deployment method for the LGM website.

There are deployment services that can sync with a Github repository, so when we would push an update to the website source code, it would get pushed via FTP to the server.

One of those services – https://www.deployhq.com/ – is offering free accounts for open source projects. I guess that LGM could apply for that.

The benefits:

• Makes collaboration easier.
• Changes on the website can be tracked and reversed easily.
• Not necessary to share FTP credentials with all site contributors.

[aoloe]

you're a lucky guy :-)

last weekend i've spent three hours working on that and came up with a simple self-hosted solution which achieves the same result, but the other way round:

https://github.com/aoloe/php-git-deploy

in short:

• add a webhook in the github repository that calls this script,
• this script gets the changes per json, pulls files from github per http and places them in the right path.

it's very simple and even if it's not used in production yet, it should just work.

and it's free for everybody :-)

i would be glad if you could have a look at it (most of all the conceptual part) and see if it's of any use for this task.

i need for two web projects of mine, so i plan to get to version 1.0 sometimes during this week.

[ms-studio]

Sounds great! I haven't been looking at the code yet. Have you been using it?