Gitolite-Apache2-Autodeploy on Ubuntu Setup

Basic Steps

• HowtoForge: Minimal 16.04 Server

  • Minimal Virtual Server Install Mode (if not on virtual machine use Minimal Server)
  • Software Selections:
    • OpenSSH
    • Basic Ubuntu Server / Standard system utilities
  • Personally, I only use sudo -s and do not enable root user. This is up to you, its your machine
  • Secure SSH
  • Update, upgrade, dist-upgrade
  • Set static IP & FQDN

• HowtoForge: LAMP on 16.04

  • Additional PHP packages: (deciding to take an 'install when needed approach') I only added php7.0-mysql.
  • I did not enable SSL (i want to be working before messing with SSL)
  • No PhpMyAdmin

• Good time for a Snapshot if VM

• Install Gitolite3 - Ubuntu Git Guide - See Bottom Section

  • MAKE SURE YOU INSTALL GITOLITE3!!!! We need v3.6+ for repo-specific-hooks
  • apt-get install gitolite3
  • gl-setup /tmp/*.pub run from the git user is incorrect on Ubuntus site..
  • Use gitolite setup -pk /tmp/*.pub on git user

• Configuring Gitolite3 - Gitolite Basic Admin

• Configure Wild Repos - Gitolite3 Wild Repos

• Configure custom hooks (sections 4.2 - 4.4) - Gitolite3 Cookbook

  • Add your own hooks in your gitolite-admin repository under:
  • gitolite-admin/local/hooks/repo-specific/
  • my post receive hook can be found here
  • Enable your hook in gitolite-admin/conf/gitolite.conf with a config like

  repo testing

  RW+ = @all

  option hook.post-receive = deploy

• You should now be able to pull the testing directory from your remote, add an index.html file, commit it, push it to your server and visit it at http://yourserver.tdl/testing/index.html