Using Capistrano to deploy (a non-Rails site) via FTP?

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dbr picture dbr · Nov 29, 2008 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

How would I go about this?

I have a mostly static site, which is being hosted on a cheap web-host, which only allows FTP access to the hosting. The site is tracked in git. I am using OS X.

I would like to upload a new version of the site by simply doing cap deploy

Answer

Peter Coulton picture Peter Coulton · Nov 29, 2008

We use capistrano to deploy our site which is written in PHP.

From memory (I'm not at work right now) we overload deploy and used rsync to sync over sftp. Something like this:

desc "Sync"
namespace :deploy do

  desc "Sync remote by default"
  task :default do
    remote.default
  end

  namespace :remote do

      desc "Sync to remote server"
      task :default do
          `rsync -avz "/path/to/webapp" "#{remote_host}:#{remote_root}/path/to/webapp"`
      end
  end
end

I'm sure you could replace rsync with whatever an ftp program and it should work fine.

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