Deployment

WordPress → FlyWheel via Github Actions#

There are some prerequisites for setting up deployment.

• You've got an SSH key set up on your computer, which has been added to both Github and Flywheel. You only need to do this once for your computer.
• You've set up the site on Flywheel already, and completed an initial push using Local Sync.

Assuming the above prerequisites are met, setting up deployment is easy!

• Grab the Flywheel SSH user for your site.
  • On the Flywheel Dashboard, locate the relevant site.
  • Click the 'Advanced' tab.
  • Copy the user component from the 'Connect via SSH' section. (For example, if the connection string is ssh team+ed-digital+the-yards@ssh.getflywheel.com), the value you want is team+ed-digital+the-yards.
• Grab your private key.
  • Assuming you're using your default private key, and that it's in the correct format already, you can just run cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa | pbcopy in your terminal to copy this directly to your clipboard.
• Paste the secrets into the Github repo's 'Secrets' panel.
  • Open the repo on Github, and click Settings -> Secrets.
  • Add a new secret called SSH_USER and paste in the value from step 1. Save it!
  • Add a new secret called PRIVATE_KEY and paste in the value from step 2. Save it!
• Finally, rename .github/workflows/main.yaml.disabled to .github/workflows/main.yaml and commit/push the results.

  mv .github/workflows/main.yaml.disabled .github/workflows/main.yaml
  git commit -am "Enable Github Action deployment"
  git push
  

• Monitor the 'Actions' tab on your Github repo page to ensure that the first deployment succeeded.

Serverless via Vercel#

TBW