Deploy Jekyll Site To Server

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Add a Jekyll site to your server, and set up to rebuild on a ‘git push’ to the server

Add Git User And Make Repository

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First, you create a git user account and a .ssh directory for that user.

$ sudo adduser git  
$ su git  
$ cd  
$ mkdir .ssh && chmod 700 .ssh  
$ touch .ssh/authorized_keys && chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys

Add your public keys to file.

Create /srv/git 

$ cd /srv  
$ sudo mkdir git  
$ sudo chown -R git:git git

Create a blank repository in /srv/git 

$ cd /srv/git  
$ sudo mkdir project.git  
$ cd project.git  
$ sudo git init --bare

If you want to restrict access to shell 

$ which git-shell

add to /etc/shells

$ sudo chsh git -s $(which git-shell)

what i did:

$ sudo chsh git -s /bin/zsh

Install Jekyll and Create Hook to Build on Git Push

Install dependencies 

$ sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential zlib1g-dev

ADD TO BASHRC or ZSHRC

echo '# Install Ruby Gems to ~/.gems' >> ~/.zshrc  
echo 'export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gems"' >> ~/.zshrc  
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.gems/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc  
source ~/.zshrc

(you might want to $ screen this next one. it takes awhile)

$ gem install jekyll bundler  
$ cd /srv/git/project.git/hooks  
$ vim post-receive

Input:

#!/bin/bash -l  
  
# Install Ruby Gems to ~/.gems  
export GEM_HOME=$HOME/.gems  
export PATH=$GEM_HOME/bin:$PATH  
  
TMP_GIT_CLONE=$HOME/tmp/PROJECT.git  
GEMFILE=$TMP_GIT_CLONE/Gemfile  
PUBLIC_WWW=/var/www/SITE/site  
  
git clone $GIT_DIR $TMP_GIT_CLONE  
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=$GEMFILE bundle install  
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=$GEMFILE JEKYLL_ENV=production bundle exec jekyll build -s $TMP_GIT_CLONE -d $PUBLIC_WWW  
rm -Rf $TMP_GIT_CLONE  
exit  

$ chmod +x post-receive  
$ sudo mkdir /var/www/SITE/site  
$ sudo chown -R git:git /var/www/SITE/site

IF you get this warning:

warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

Go to the repository and execute this where BRANCHNAME is the name of the branch:

$ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/BRANCHNAME

Seems to be working…
Who knows how much I did that I didn’t document…at least a bit…