Deploy PHP Application Using Capistrano 2.15

Deployment With Capistrano:

We can also deploy php app using ruby gem capistrano. For this we have to install it first on our system.

gem install capistrano -v 2.15.5
gem install railsless-deploy

After that on any place we have to initialized it. For this use:

capify .

It will create following two files

config/deploy.rb
Capfile

Add in the Capfile

require 'railsless-deploy'
load 'config/deploy'

Now edit the deploy.rb

set :application, "App name"
set :repository, "https://username:password@yourrepository.org/project-repository.git"
set :user, 'shh_username'
set :scm, :git
set :normalize_asset_timestamps, false 
set :deploy_to, "/full/path/to/your project"
 
set :deploy_via, :copy
set :use_sudo, false
set :copy_exclude, [".git", ".DS_Store", ".gitignore", ".gitmodules", "Capfile", "config/deploy.rb"]
 
server "server name", :app
namespace :myapp do

   task :restart_webserver do

      #Show Start of Task
      print "Restarting webserver..."

      # Restart Web Server
      run "#{sudo} service apache2 restart"



   end

end

after "deploy","myapp:restart_webserver" 

We can also use deply_via:remote_cache.

Now setup deploy and then execute it.

cap deploy:set

cap deploy

It will create three folders on root

project_root/releases

project_root/shared

project_root/current