Deploy static website with git

How to Deploy a Website to a Remote Server Using GIT | HackerNoon

This a step by step tutorial, teaching you how to leverage git to deploy your website to your remote server. It will guide you through each and every step. Familiarity with and the are a plus, but not mandatory. Git Linux Shell THE WORK 1. Login to server Open your terminal and login to your server…

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On server

# create directory for content
cd /var/www/
sudo mkdir frny.uk
sudo chown -R <user>:sudo frny.uk

# create directory for git repo (difficult to git push to outside home - maybe the chown above would have worked)
mkdir -p ~/repos/frny.uk.git
cd ~/repos/frny.uk.git/
git init --bare

# create hook
cd hooks
vi post-receive

#!/bin/sh
git --work-tree=/var/www/frny.uk --git-dir=/home/<user>/repos/frny.uk.git checkout -f main

chmod +x post-receive

On local machine

# add remote pointing to server
git remote add deploy ssh://<user>@<server>.vps.webdock.io/~/repos/frny.uk.git/
git push deploy

Setup SSL with wildcard SSL cert

sudo certbot certonly --email <user>@example.com --manual --preferred-challenges=dns -d *.frny.uk --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/frny.uk.conf

# see end

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/frny.uk.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/frny.uk.conf
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx

frny.uk.conf

server {
	listen 80;
	listen [::]:80;

	server_name frny.uk ~^(.*)\.frny\.uk$;

	return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

server {
        listen 443 ssl;

        root /var/www/frny.uk;
        index index.html;

        server_name frny.uk www.frny.uk;

        ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/frny.uk/fullchain.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/frny.uk/privkey.pem;
        include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf;
        ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
}

server {
        listen 443 ssl;

        root /var/www/frny.uk/$1;
        index index.html;

        server_name ~^(.*)\.frny\.uk$;

        ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/frny.uk/fullchain.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/frny.uk/privkey.pem;
        include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf;
        ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
}

Renew SSL cert

sudo certbot certonly --manual -d *.frny.uk
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx