Clone Private Github repo to Digital Ocean (with Password)

README.md

Warning: This only works if you enable Password authentication in Digital Ocean.

If you want to use Key authentication, most tutorials in Google already cover that.

Step 1 - Create deploy.yml

In your repo, create .github/workflow/deploy.yml containing this:

name: Deploy via SSH
on: push
jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Deploy app
      uses: appleboy/ssh-action@v0.1.4
      with:
        host: 123.45.67.89
        username: ${{ secrets.DO_USERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.DO_PASSWORD }}
        
        script: |
          cd ~/var/www
          git clone https://${{ secrets.ACCESS_TOKEN }}:x-oauth-basic@github.com/USERNAME/REPO_NAME.git
          echo "Deployment successful to Digital Ocean"

Don't forget to change the target directory (the one you cd into), host IP Address, and github link.

Step 2 - Setup Secrets

In your repo, click "Settings" tab then choose "Secrets" from sidebar.

Enter in these 3 credentials:

• DO_USERNAME - your Digital Ocean's username
• DO_PASSWORD - your Digital Ocean's password
• ACCESS_TOKEN - your Github's access token. Generate it from here https://github.com/settings/tokens

Step 3 - Test it

Push something and see the log in "Actions" tab. A common error is your user has no permission in the specified directory.

Done!

hey @hrsetyono thanks!

Would like to know if this is possible?

I'd like to deploy two websites from single github private repo.
One website is the admin panel and another website is the main application.
Both are subfolders inside the repo

private-repo/
|__ admin/
|__ main/

Is it possible to deploy two websites from a single github private repository?

Hi @pj8912 I haven't tried to deploy 2 websites with 1 repo before, I think it should be doable. You just need to configure the server

how many .yml files would I need and where?

Still 1 yml, but you configure the server so the root folder of 1st website is on /admin and the 2nd web is on /main. I don't know the server config for that though