How to Create a Simple GitHub Webhook Deployment

Simple-GitHub-Webhook-Deployment.md

Dependencies:

• #linuxmasterrace
• git
• php
• apache

Commands to run before:

cd /var/www/example.com/
git clone https://github.com/username/reponame.git
mv reponame public_html
chmod 755 -R public_html/
chown www-data:www-data -R public_html/

PHP:

<?php
echo shell_exec("cd /var/www/example.com/public_html/ && git fetch --all && git reset --hard origin/master && git pull")
?>

GitHub Webhook Setup:

• Navigate to: https://github.com/username/reponame/settings/hooks/new
• And enter your URL to the php program there. Something like: http://example.com/pull.php

Note:

• This will be able to be triggered by anyone at the URL by just navigating to it. Add an if statement looking for a payload from GitHub or a secret to prevent that if needed
• Replace username with your GitHub username, reponame with your name of your repo, example.com with the domain of your website, and /var/www/example.com/ with the directory of your server root.

I love the fact that you did #linuxmasterrace. NEVER change that. xD