[Howto] auto deploy a hugo site on gandi simple hosting

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I’m not going to post the whole article I wrote on my website about it here, but if you are interested, I documented the way that I automatically deploy Hugo to Gandi simple hosting.

Situation:

  • Hugo code on github
  • HTML files on github in separate repository
  • Site on gandi simple hosting (PHP/MySQL instance) which updates within 1 minute of git push to github html repository

In short, how did I do it:

Bash script:

  • generates hugo site after first cleansing the deploy dir. (Not the standard public directory)
  • asks for commit message
  • pushes hugo source code to github
  • pushes html files to github

Webhook on github with php file on simple hosting that does a git pull.

Here is the bash script:

#!/bin/bash
cd FULL_PATH_TO_HUGO_DIRECTORY && \
echo -e "\033[1mDeleting files\033[0m" && \
rm -rf && \
echo -e "\033[1mGenerating hugo site\033[0m" && \
hugo -d "PATH_TO_DEPLOY_DIRECTORY" && \
echo -e "\033[1mGit commit + push\033[0m" && \
read -p "Commit description: " desc
git add . && \
git add -u && \
git commit -m "$desc" && \
git push &&
cd PATH_TO_DEPLOY_DIRECTORY && \
git add . && \
git add -u && \
git commit -m "$desc" && \
git push

Off course change the paths to the different directories.

for the complete explanation check it out on my website

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Bunker, are you still around? I’d like to deploy my Hugo site to Gandi - and I could really use your detailed walkthrough as a starting point, even if it’s 10 years old now, but alas, the link no longer works…!

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I am still around here. Even though this is a throwback…

Anyway, my website of that time is still available on my github GitHub - thebeardbe/achter.be: Achter.be source files for hugo · GitHub

the post in question is available at: achter.be/content/blog/20160226_hugo_git_deploy_automation.md at master · thebeardbe/achter.be · GitHub

However I don’t know if this still works as I have not used this for years.

Edit: I even found the original gandi cookbook article that I followed: auto deploy from GitHub to Simple Hosting — gnadi-cookbook 0.0.1 documentation

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Thank you!!