Looking for .git advice with cPanel

[Tom Flanagan]

Hello,

I have a cPanel installation with git installed on the server and I am able to clone/checkout/pull ok but I manually have to copy/rsync files to public_html which feels very cumbersome. On past servers I believe that we set up our git project directory like project_name->docroot. We then checked out our project above public_html and then we had a symlink in public_html that pointed to our docroot folder in the .git repository. I would think that we just make public_html->symlink the docroot but our hosting company is very skittish about doing anything with public_html. Am I just thinking about this the wrong way? The hosting company has not been able to provide any insight on best practices for this.

-Thanks

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

The following third-party URL offers a useful guide on this:

Namecheap.com Knowledgebase • How to deal with Git on our shared servers (SSH Access)

Rather than creating a symbolic link from the public_html directory, it might be easier to simply change the document root of the account. Your hosting provider can do this by modifying the configuration file for the account in the /var/cpanel/userdata/$username directory.

Thank you.