Question

I’ve been reading about Capistrano, Pake, and Phing and I’m just not finding what I need. It seems like these deployment packages all assume that you have full access to your deployment server, that is SSH access.

What I need is a good deployment package that works with SVN and is able to deploy via FTP or via SSH. Anything out there able to do this?

Answer 1

Try weex. It’s an ftp client to upload web pages.

I think in your case, I’d package my release and transfer that. The most simple approach is creating a tag (from trunk), then run an SVN export (locally) and then upload the remainder. You can wrap that in a script:

#!/bin/bash
svn cp http://server/trunk http://server/tag/$1
svn export http://server/tag/$1 ./local
weex yourprofile

(Run with: ./tagging.sh)

… also, create a profile for weex (yourprofile), before you run that.

The other tools you mentioned require a lot, but they also work really, really well. I always use capistrano when I deploy straight from SVN. In some cases I also use PEAR to deploy my websites and libraries.