How To Deploy Private GitHub Repository To Any Hosting - CI/CD

GitHub to Web Hosting 

You can deploy private GitHub repo to cPanel, Hostinger, or any Web Hosting Manager. Automatic deployment for your CI/CD. This method will work for that. I'm a web developer by profession, I face this issue a lot until I find this method.

Deploying while cPanel Git version control you will face the issue "GitHub cannot access private repository" while submitting Github private repo unless until you setup a private key of cPanel to your GitHub Deploy keys.

Here you don't need to have SSH access or any root access for this method. All you need is an FTP ACCOUNT.

Let's start

In this method, I will be using the Deployment of GitHub Private Repo to cPanel.

1. You have to create an FTP account.

You need to setup the following details.
Log In: it will be the username

Domain: it will be your domain name.

Password: Write a password whatever you like. But keep it safe we will use re-use it, in github.

 

2. In FTP Accounts, click on Configuration FTP Client, to get FTP Username and FTP Server Address.

3. Now go to your repository Settings > Secrets > Actions and click on New repository secret.

https://github.com/{USERNAME}/{REPO_NAME}/settings/secrets/actions

4. Now add a repository secret these details one by one.

Name: FTP_SERVER

Value: YOUR_FTP_SERVER_ADDRESS

Name: FTP_USERNAME

Value: YOU_FTP_USERNAME

Name: FTP_PASSWORD

Value: YOUR_FTP_PASSWORD

In my case its

Name: FTP_SERVER

Value: ftp.recmail.net

Name: FTP_USERNAME

Value: admin_github@blog.hit4visit.com

Name: FTP_PASSWORD

Value: s^E7tXj+O00U

5. Now add an action workflow. Change its name from main.yml to cPanelDepolyment.yml

    Copy the code below and add it to the workflow, click on start commit and then commit new file.

Version 1 code:

name: Publish Website to Web Hosting
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
jobs:
  FTP-Deploy-Action:
    name: FTP-Deploy-Action
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2.1.0
      with:
        fetch-depth: 2
    - name: FTP-Deploy-Action
      uses: SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action@3.1.1
      with:
        ftp-server: ${{ secrets.FTP_SERVER }}
        ftp-username: ${{ secrets.FTP_USERNAME }}
        ftp-password: ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }}

Version 2 code:

name: Publish Website to Web Hosting V2
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
jobs:
  web-deploy:
    name: 🎉 Deploy
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: 🚚 Get latest code
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: 📂 Sync files
      uses: SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action@4.3.0
      with:
        server: ${{ secrets.FTP_SERVER }}
        username: ${{ secrets.FTP_USERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }}

And boom, now you can do CI/CD of your project. Now, wait a few minutes until it deploys its initial code, after that once you push to the branch your setup, for older "master" or new version "main" or whatever you setup as default or you want its push to be updated, it will automatically update on your website. 

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