This action is a part of GitHub Actions Library created by rtCamp.

Deploy WordPress - GitHub Action

A GitHub Action to deploy WordPress on a server using PHP's Deployer.org project.

Please note that, this action expects git repo structure in a certain way. Your webroot should include content inside wp-content except uploads. You may use our WordPress Skeleton as a base, or restructre existing project to fit in.

During deployment, by default this action will download WordPress, put the content of the repo in wp-content directory and then deploy the entire WordPress setup on the deploy path specified in hosts.yml.

hosts.yml is Deployer's inventory file.

Usage

1. Create a .github/workflows/deploy.yml file in your GitHub repo, if one doesn't exist already.
2. Add the following code to the deploy.yml file.

on: push
name: Deploying WordPress Site
jobs:
  deploy:
    name: Deploy
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Deploy
        uses: rtCamp/action-deploy-wordpress@v3
        env:
          SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}

3. Create SSH_PRIVATE_KEY secret using GitHub Action's Secret and store the private key that you use use to ssh to server(s) defined in hosts.yml.
4. Create .github/hosts.yml inventory file, based on Deployer inventory file format. Make sure you explictly define GitHub branch mapping. Only the GitHub branches mapped in hosts.yml will be deployed, rest will be filtered out. Here is a sample hosts.yml.

Inventory file Variables

Mandatory

Optional

Environment Variables

This GitHub action's behavior can be customized using following environment variables:

All node related variables are completely optional. You can use them if your site needs to have node dependencies built.

Server Setup

The Deployer.org expects server setup in a particular way.

Using EasyEngine v4

New Site

1. Pass flag --public-dir=current during site creation.
2. Delete the current folder using rm -r /opt/easyengine/sites/example.com/app/htdocs/current.

The current folder will be automatically created by Deployer during execution.

Existing Site

1. Open file /opt/easyengine/sites/example.com/config/nginx/conf.d/main.conf.
2. Replace /var/www/htdocs with /var/www/htdocs/current.
3. Run ee site reload example.com.
4. Move wp-config.php to htdocs. You can use following command:

mv /opt/easyengine/sites/example.com/app/wp-config.php /opt/easyengine/sites/example.com/app/htdocs/wp-config.php

Not using EasyEngine

1. Make sure your web server points to current subdirectory inside original webroot. Make sure current subdirectory do NOT exist actually.
2. You may need to reload your webserver.
3. You may need to change location of wp-config.php as we need in above section.

Hashicorp Vault (Optional)

This GitHub action supports Hashicorp Vault. This comes in handy if you manage multiple servers and providing SSH_PRIVATE_KEY as GitHub secret per project becomes cumbersome.

To enable Hashicorp Vault support, please define following GitHub secrets:

You will need to change secrets line in deploy.yml file to look like below.

on: push
name: Deploying WordPress Site using vault
jobs:
  deploy:
    name: Deploy
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Deploy
        uses: rtCamp/action-deploy-wordpress@v3
        env:
          VAULT_ADDR: ${{ secrets.VAULT_ADDR }}
          VAULT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.VAULT_TOKEN }}

GitHub action uses VAULT_TOKEN to connect to VAULT_ADDR to retrieve Signed SSH Certificates and uses it for deployment.

Please remember that you must configure each of your target deployment server to accept ssh connection via signed certificate using Vault beforehand. Ususally, you need to run following commands once per server:

export VAULT_ADDR='https://example.com:8200'
export VAULT_TOKEN='s.gIX5MKov9TUp7iiIqhrP1HgN'

# Add the public key to all target host's SSH configuration.
curl -o /etc/ssh/trusted-user-ca-keys.pem "$VAULT_ADDR/v1/ssh-client-signer/public_key"

# Add the path where the public key contents are stored to the SSH configuration file as the TrustedUserCAKeys option.
echo "TrustedUserCAKeys /etc/ssh/trusted-user-ca-keys.pem" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config

# Restart ssh service. This may differ according to the OS.
systemctl restart ssh

Overriding default deployement behavior

1. If you would like to completely override this actions deployer recipe. Create a file at location .github/deploy/deploy.php in your git repository to provide your own Deployer.org script.
   • Please note that it will completely override this action's original deploy.php. So if you need some portion of original deploy.php, you need to copy that to your own .github/deploy/deploy.php.
2. If you need to add one or a few custom tasks on top of this actions deploy.php, you can create a file at location .github/deploy/addon.php in your git repository. Checkout the example addon.php to see how to customize it.
3. If you need to modify the main.sh shell script of this action, you can create a file at location .github/deploy/addon.sh in your git repository. Checkout the example addon.sh to see how to customize.

License

MIT © 2022 rtCamp

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