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This is not really a Laravel question, but I still want to ask it here because I think other Laravel users may have the samen issue.
Currently I have a server with using Ubuntu and nginx (Php7) which my Laravel project on it. I do not use Forge to deploy my current changes to the live environment of the server.
Currently i do this manually by removing all files from the server, then clone it from sourcetree and run the migrate command. I remove everything because sourcetree is not be able to overwrite the current files which on my server. This is really annoying and takes me a lot of time.
Hopefully someone knows how i can update my changes on a easier way to the live server.
For one site I use an old school approach, I have a folder on local computer with a copy of changed files only. So at any point I can upload. Granted, I have duplicate files on my dev machine, the trick is to upload them and not let that folder grow too big. Once uploaded via ftp, I delete local copy a day or 2 later only after I know all is working on production.
@jlrdw Thank you for your reply.
This is a solutions, but also take some effort. Especially when have a huge update with a lot of files included.
There should be another faster way to do.
You could use a git remote on the server, so then you can push your changes from SourceTree to the remote server.
Check this out, though it might be a bit outdated: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-automatic-deployment-with-git-with-a-vps
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