Log into your Digital Ocean account and click on the Create -> Droplets button. Otherwise, just follow this guide to start your first deployment, then after the first deployment, only files that have changed will be uploaded in future. Your Laravel Application is on GitHub or Bitbucket. Don't deploy your whole repository on the first deployment.If your files are already on DigitalOcean though and up to date with the latest commit, you can follow this guide to skip that first deployment: Run your first deploymentīy default, DeployHQ will upload the whole repository to your server on the first deployment, because there is no previously deployed commit to compare to. When you're finished, just click Create Server and you can proceed to run your first deployment. Then, within Deployment options, you can choose to automatically deploy your server and, if you're only deploying files from a certain directory in your repository, enter a Deployment subdirectory.
Once you've followed this guide, you can add the username and password to your settings and an optional deployment path to match the directory that your SFTP user is restricted to. For example, you may wish for your user to be able to run SSH commands on the server during the deployment. This guide provides an SFTP-only user with basic access but you can adapt it for your own needs as required. To get started, we'd recommend following this guide. Next, enter your public IP in the hostname field followed by the username and password, once you've followed the guide below to create a new user on your DigitalOcean server.īecause DigitalOcean provides servers with root access, it's strongly recommended that a new SFTP user is created, with access only to your deployment path. Start by entering a name, and choosing SSH/SFTP as the protocol: If you've just added your repository, you will have been taken to this page automatically. Head to Servers & Groups, and click the New Server button at the top of the screen. Once you've configured your repository, you'll need to connect to your DigitalOcean server. Next, click Create project and you'll be taken to a screen where you can log in with your repository hosting account to authorise access and then choose your repository. You'll be prompted to enter a name for your project, then select where your repository is hosted. Head to the Projects screen in DeployHQ, then click the New Project button to get started.
Deploying to your site hosted on DigitalOcean is very simple with DeployHQ.įirstly, you'll need to set up your DeployHQ project, then connect to your DigitalOcean server.