Move a local Laravel project to a server with FTP

Mac or Windows dev box?

Are you using Git? Then you can easily do this with a post-receive hook.

• Create an empty git repo on your server (use ssh with your website user)

cd /home/your-website-home-dir-outside-the-public-root/
mkdir repositories
cd repositories
mkdir your-repo-name.git
cd your-repo-name.git
git init --bare
cd hooks
nano post-receive

Paste this (change paths to your values)

#!/bin/sh
git —work-tree=/home/user/public_html/ —git-dir=/home/user/repositories/repo.git checkout -f

chmod +x post-receive

Then add this remote repo to your local one, for example;

git remote add origin ssh://user@domain/home/user/repositories/repo.git

And git push origin master.

Why don't you want to use GitHub (or something similar)? I use AWS.

@Snapey I'm using a Mac.

@Erulezz Yes I do use Git. Interesting workflow, is this a one way communication? In other words, any edits, adds, deletes etc. need to be done in the local repo correct?

@phpMick I cannot afford to pay for the private option and I'm not sure if using the free/public would be a good thing. Do you use the free/public service for your personal projects?

I think that https://bitbucket.org/ does free private.

Our business projects are private/paid.

I guess it depends what you are working on but I think that the free/public option goes with the idea of opensource and this is generally a good idea, considering the tools we are using.

@phpMick Wow, I didn't know Bitbucket offered free private repos, that's great. Thanks a lot for pointing that out.

@fsdolphin Yes, for me the local one is always the "master" one, and if i want to push the local master to production i do a git push and everything is up2date on the production server.

I really like it this way because you don't have to use a third-party service where the code is stored.

@Erulezz I will give it a try and see if I can make it work. Thanks a lot.

I came across this tutorial which seems to be the same as to what you described.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-automatic-deployment-with-git-with-a-vps

Yes, that is the same as the method i described earlier, but off course more details and a better explanation in that tutorial. :) I have used this method for years now for all my projects, works great in my situation. Did you get it to work?

@Erulezz what about migrations and new composer packages?

@EE , what about them? It works the same as your normal code. Add them locally, git commit them, git push and then on production do artisan migrate or composer install/update.