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FTP Deployment

Copy all the files and folders via FTP from your Git project to your server in a specific path, delete remote folder before

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: FTP Deployment

              
  uses: airvzxf/ftp-deployment-action@latest
Learn more about this action in airvzxf/ftp-deployment-action

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FTP Deployment: GitHub Action

This GitHub action copies the files via FTP from your Git project to your server in a specific path.

Usage Example

Add this code in ./.github/workflows/your_action.yml.

More about GitHub "secrets" in this article: Creating and storing encrypted secrets.

name: CI -> Deploy to My website
on:
  push:
    branches: [ main, development ]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      # Here is the deployment action
      - name: Upload from public_html via FTP
        uses: airvzxf/ftp-deployment-action@latest
        with:
          server: ${{ secrets.FTP_SERVER }}
          user: ${{ secrets.FTP_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }}
          local_dir: "./public_html"

Optionally, you can get the live version which has the last commits using the master branch like this: uses: airvzxf/ftp-deployment-action@master.

Settings

Usually the zero values mean unlimited or infinite. This table is based on the default values on lftp-4.9.2.

Option Description Required Default Example
server FTP Server. Yes N/A rovisoft.net
user FTP Username. Yes N/A myself@rovisoft.net
password FTP Password. Yes N/A ExampleOnlyAlphabets
local_dir Local directory. No "./" "./public_html"
remote_dir Remote directory. No "./" "/www/user/home"
max_retries Times that the lftp command will be executed if an error occurred. No 10 N/A
delete Delete all the files inside of the remote directory before the upload process. No false N/A
no_symlinks Do not create symbolic links. No false N/A
mirror_verbose Mirror verbosity level. No 1 N/A
ftp_ssl_allow FTP - Allow SSL encryption No true N/A
ftp_use_feat FTP - FEAT: Determining what extended features the FTP server supports. No true N/A
ftp_nop_interval FTP - Delay in seconds between NOOP commands when downloading tail of a file. No 2 N/A
net_max_retries NET - Maximum number of operation without success.
0 unlimited.
1 no retries.		 No 1 N/A
net_persist_retries NET - Ignore hard errors.
When reply 5xx errors or there is too many users.		 No 5 N/A
net_timeout NET - Sets the network protocol timeout. No 15s N/A
dns_max_retries DNS - 0 no limit trying to lookup an address otherwise try only this number of times. No 8 N/A
dns_fatal_timeout DNS - Time for DNS queries.
Set to "never" to disable.		 No 10s N/A
lftp_settings Any other settings that you find in the MAN pages for the LFTP package. No "" "set cache:cache-empty-listings true; set cmd:status-interval 1s; set http:user-agent 'firefox';"

More information on the official site for lftp - Manual pages.

Example with NO DEFAULT settings:

name: CI -> Deploy to My website
on:
  push:
    branches: [ main, development ]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      # Here is the deployment action
      - name: Upload from public_html via FTP
        uses: airvzxf/ftp-deployment-action@latest
        with:
          server: ${{ secrets.FTP_SERVER }}
          user: ${{ secrets.FTP_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }}
          local_dir: "./public_html"
          remote_dir: "/www/sub-domain/games/myself"
          delete: "true"
          max_retries: "7"
          no_symlinks: "false"
          ftp_ssl_allow: "true"
          ftp_use_feat: "true"
          ftp_nop_interval: "9"
          net_max_retries: "0"
          net_persist_retries: "11"
          net_timeout: "13s"
          dns_max_retries: "17"
          dns_fatal_timeout: "never"
          lftp_settings: "set cache:cache-empty-listings true; set cmd:status-interval 1s; set http:user-agent 'firefox';"

NOTES

Main features:

  • Copy all the files inside the specific folder from your GitHub repository to the specific folder in your server.
  • Option to delete all the files in the specific remote folder before the upload.
  • Using Alpine container means small size and faster creation of the container.
  • Show messages in the console logs for every executed command.

TODOs:

  • Add options for exclude delete files.
  • Take all the logs from the Linux container then attach all into the Workflow Artifacts, to review unknown errors.