Use Gitlab Pipeline to push data to ftpserver

Question

I want to deploy to a ftp server using a Gitlab pipeline. I tried this code:

deploy: // You can name your task however you like
    stage: deploy
    only:
        - master
        deploy:
  script:
    - apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq lftp

But I get a error message. What is the best way to do this? :)

Answer 1

Then add the following code in your .gitlab-ci.yml file.

variables:
  HOST: "example.com"
  USERNAME: "yourUserNameHere"
  PASSWORD: "yourPasswordHere"

deploy:
  script:
    - apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq lftp
    - lftp -c "set ftp:ssl-allow no; open -u $USERNAME,$PASSWORD $HOST; mirror -Rnev ./ ./public_html --ignore-time --parallel=10 --exclude-glob .git* --exclude .git/"
  only:
    - master

The above code will push all your recently modified files in your Gitlab repository into public_html folder in your FTP Server root.

Just update the variables HOST, USERNAME and PASSWORD with your FTP Credentials and commit this file to your Gitlab Repository, you are good to go.

Now whenever you make changes in your master branch, Gitlab will automatically push your changes to your remote FTP server.