Setting up Deployer on Debian with Plesk

Instructions of how to set up Deployer on a Server with Debian and Plesk.

Install Deployer

Add the packages deployer/deployer and deployer/recipes to your project:

composer require deployer/deployer deployer/recipes --dev

More info of how to install composer: https://getcomposer.org/download/

Download Deployer to your local machine and make it a global command:

curl -LO https://deployer.org/deployer.phar
mv deployer.phar /usr/local/bin/dep
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dep

Alternatively, you can use php vendor/bin/dep instead of dep.

Install git

Add the git extension in Plesk > Extensions.

Install composer

Execute following commands where you just downloaded composer.phar:

mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer

Update default PHP version

Plesk comes with a default PHP version in bash. Some projects might require a specific version.

Execute following commands via SSH as hosting user (not root user) to have Deployer tasks use a specific PHP version (adjust 7.4 accordingly):

echo "export PATH=/opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin:\$PATH;" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

If the .bashrc is not automatically executed when you log in via SSH, add a file .profile to the users home directory with following content:

if [ "$BASH" ]; then
  if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
    . ~/.bashrc
  fi
fi

Authorize github or bitbucket

Add your public key to GitHub or Bitbucket and the ~ /.ssh/autorized_keys files on your server. More info at https://deployer.org/docs/advanced/deploy-and-git.html and https://gist.github.com/zhujunsan/a0becf82ade50ed06115

Install node.js and npm

This step is optional. Log into your server via ssh as root user and check for node and npm versions:

node -v
npm -v

To install node and npm, execute following commands via SSH as root user (adjust setup_14.x accordingly):

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo apt-get install -y npm

If you don't have sudo installed, use following command first: apt-get install sudo -y

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