Deploying to 20i with DeployHQ

Deploying to your Wordpress site hosted with 20i is very simple with DeployHQ. Firstly, you'll need to set up your DeployHQ project, then connect to your 20i server.

Setting up your project

Head to the Projects screen in DeployHQ, then click the New Project button to get started. You'll be prompted to enter a name for your project, then select where your repository is hosted.

Next, click Create project and you'll be taken to a screen where you can log in with your repository hosting account to authorise access and then choose your repository.

• Adding a Bitbucket repository
• Adding a Codebase repository
• Adding a GitHub repository
• Adding a GitLab repository
• Adding a repository manually

Setting up your 20i server

Once you've configured your repository, you'll need to connect to your 20i server. Head to Servers & Groups, and click the New Server button at the top of the screen. If you've just added your repository, you will have been taken to this page automatically.

Start by entering a name, and choosing SSH/SFTP as the protocol:

Next, enter your 20i domain as the hostname, your username and port (22 in this case) and password. 20i provides SSH access through their control panel. You can find your SSH credentials by:

1. Logging into your 20i control panel
2. Navigating to the specific hosting package
3. Clicking on "SSH Access" or "Advanced" section

Here, if you wish, you can also use an SSH key instead of a password, which is set up by taking the SSH key in your DeployHQ server configuration page, and pasting it in your 20i server, in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

In case your connection fails, please make sure you have enabled SSH access in your 20i control panel and that your IP is not blocked.

Once this is done, you can enter a deployment path (where you want files to be placed on the server). In this case, you'll most likely start with the name of your site, followed by the path to the theme directory.

Next, within Deployment options, you can choose to automatically deploy your server and, if you're only deploying files from a certain directory in your repository, enter a Deployment subdirectory.

In this case, as you probably just want to deploy your Wordpress theme folder, you'll enter the path to the theme. If you only keep the theme in version control, you can leave it blank.

Click Create Server to finish, then you can proceed to start your first deployment.

Run your first deployment

By default, DeployHQ will upload the whole repository to your server on the first deployment, because there is no previously deployed commit to compare to.

If your files are already on 20i though and up to date with the latest commit, you can follow this guide to skip that first deployment:

• Don't deploy your whole repository on the first deployment

Otherwise, just follow this guide to start your first deployment, then after the first deployment, only files that have changed will be uploaded in future.

• Running your first deployment

That's it! You've now set up and run your first deployment to your 20i server and your future changes will be uploaded for you automatically, or at the simple click of a button.

Further reading

DeployHQ has a number of very useful features to help with your Wordpress deployments in general that you might wish to find out more about:

• Compiling assets and javascript with the Build pipeline
• Running commands on your server with SSH commands
• Stop certain files from being uploaded in deployments using Excluded files
• Keep important files safely away from your repository using Config files
• Keep your team in the loop and run other useful tasks during a deployment with our Integrations

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Want to learn more about deployment or Wordpress? Check out our documentation or contact our support team for assistance.