Remote Git hosting? Detect changes and pull website updates from remote repo?

[FrankWard]

I migrated from Plesk, and they had a feature that would pull website updates from a Github repo. Does Virtualmin support anything like this?

Using remote Git hosting

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Debian 10.8 AWS
Webmin version	1.994
Virtualmin version	7.1-1
Related packages	-minimal with mail services disabled

[tpnsolutions]

@FrankWard,

Virtualmin does have a “git” plugin though it doesn’t directly do what you are suggesting.

Personally, I wrote a script called “website-upload” for my own use which takes two parameters…

--profile

--version

When I write source code for websites and webapps I do so using my own versioning process. The “profile” is the path to a file which holds some variables such as “host”, “user” and “paths” (locally and remotely)

I pass the “version” along with it, telling the script which version of the code I want to publish.

Typically I create two types of profiles, “sandbox” and “live” which are for testing and production respectively.

Aside from uploading the files, my script also creates “minified” javascript, and compiles a minified version of CSS from SASS based templates.

The script works well for my needs, and I’d be happy to share it if you think it might help you.

Keep in mind, the script was written in PHP and requires a few extra dependencies.

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[Ilia]

It sounds like a possible and interesting feature request for File Manager module.

[FrankWard]

Thanks for the update. And I agree, it would be a great feature.