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Automate Laravel Deployment on Hostinger with GitHub Actions: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Previously I added a blog on deploying a laravel application on Hostinger. This is an extension on this.

This is the previous article. - Effortless Laravel Deployment on Hostinger Using Git: A Step-by-Step Guide

GitHub Actions is a powerful automation tool that allows you to streamline your development workflow. When you push a change to a GitHub repository branch, GitHub can automatically trigger a workflow to deploy that branch to your server. This seamless process ensures continuous integration and deployment without manual intervention.

Creating a Deployment Script for GitHub Actions

Let's create a deploy.sh file and add all the necessary laravel related commands here.

First login via SSH and go to your site location

cd /home/youruser/domains/yourdomain.hostingersite.com
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Then create deploy.sh file.

nano deploy.sh
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Add this to file

#!/bin/bash # Define a function to check the status of the last executed command check_status() { if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "✅ $1 succeeded." else echo "❌ $1 failed." exit 1 fi } composer2 install --no-interaction check_status "Composer Install" npm install check_status "NPM Install" npm run build check_status "NPM Run Build" # Run migrations php artisan migrate --force check_status "PHP Artisan Migrate" # Run database seeders php artisan db:seed --force check_status "PHP Artisan DB Seed" # Clear caches php artisan config:clear check_status "PHP Artisan Config Clear" php artisan cache:clear check_status "PHP Artisan Cache Clear" php artisan view:clear check_status "PHP Artisan View Clear" php artisan route:clear check_status "PHP Artisan Route Clear" # Rebuild caches php artisan config:cache check_status "PHP Artisan Config Cache" php artisan route:cache check_status "PHP Artisan Route Cache" php artisan view:cache check_status "PHP Artisan View Cache" echo "✅ Deployment complete."
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You will see all the Laravel commands here.

Create the GitHub Actions workflow file

Let's create a GitHub Actions workflow file that automates the deployment of your project to a Hostinger server whenever changes are pushed to a particular branch

Add this file to you github repo .github\workflows\maindeploy.yml. And add this content

name: Deploy to Hostinger Server

on: push: branches: - main jobs: deploy: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout repository uses: actions/checkout@v3 - name: Install sshpass (if using password authentication) run: sudo apt-get install -y sshpass - name: Deploy to Hostinger via SSH with custom port env: HOSTINGER_IP: ${{ secrets.HOSTINGER_IP }} HOSTINGER_PORT: ${{ secrets.HOSTINGER_PORT }} HOSTINGER_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.HOSTINGER_USERNAME }} HOSTINGER_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.HOSTINGER_PASSWORD }} run: | # Specify custom port with -P for scp sshpass -p "$HOSTINGER_PASSWORD" scp -P $HOSTINGER_PORT -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -r * $HOSTINGER_USERNAME@$HOSTINGER_IP:/home/youruser/domains/yourdomain.hostingersite.com # Specify custom port with -p for ssh sshpass -p "$HOSTINGER_PASSWORD" ssh -p $HOSTINGER_PORT -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no $HOSTINGER_USERNAME@$HOSTINGER_IP "cd /home/youruser/domains/yourdomain.hostingersite.com && bash deploy.sh"
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You can see "/home/youruser/domains/yourdomain.hostingersite.com" in two places. You must change this to your actual location. More about this you can find in first video.

And remember that here you are using default main branch. if you need change the branch here

on: push: branches: - main
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Add repository secret values

You can see this section

env: HOSTINGER_IP: ${{ secrets.HOSTINGER_IP }} HOSTINGER_PORT: ${{ secrets.HOSTINGER_PORT }} HOSTINGER_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.HOSTINGER_USERNAME }} HOSTINGER_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.HOSTINGER_PASSWORD }}
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You must add these values as github repository secrets. Let me show how. First go to repository and got to Settings -> Secrets and variables -> Actions and you can add these values.

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That's it and when you see the actions tab you can see the action status.

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Thanks and that's all you have to do.

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