Question

I would like to set up Git to work on my site so I can can

1. I have a repo on my computer (index.php, contact.php, etc)
2. Set up my webserver (hostgator) so that I can commit to the server
3. Make it so that when I commit, the website’s code changes as that’s the code I’m working on

All the tutorials that I saw show how to push it onto github which is not what I’m looking for. Also I don’t want and git files to be viewable because it contains some PHP passes and stuff in them.

I plan on having different projects on my site. So for now there’s one subfolder like /forums that have all the files for that but later I may create another project so I’ll make each folder into it’s own repo.

Are there any tutorials or video tutorials on how to do this? Any blogs or such? I jest need a nudge in the right direction

Answer 1

You should have SSH access to your web server.

1. Connect to your webserver using SSH, and create the initial
   repository there (git init).

2. Then, clone this repository in your computer (git clone).

3. Add the website files into the repository (git add), and commit
   (git commit). Commits in git are always local. You need to
   push them to the remote repo. So…

4. Push your changes to the webserver repository (git push)

5. To “checkout” these changes automatically to your website, you need
   to add a post-receive hook (see https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks)