Git pull CI/CD GitLab Deploy on server Cloudways

Question

In my Deploy internship of my gitlab-ci.yml CI, I want to automatically send the changes from my repo to my Cloudways server (without using the cloudways manual “deploy via Git”). my project is in the /root/public_html/

So I do this:

deploy:
stage: deploy
  
script:
    - 'which ssh-agent || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install openssh-client -y )'
    - eval $(ssh-agent -s)
    - ssh-add <(echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY")
    - mkdir -p ~/.ssh
    - '[[ -f /.dockerenv ]] && echo -e "Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\n 
          $APP_USER@$APP_HOST" > ~/.ssh/config'
    - cd public_html/ && git pull origin main && composer install

environment:
        name: production

only:
    - main

The CI is running with error path " public_html/: No such file or directory " Do you have a tip, a good practice?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can start and use the actual full path instead of relying on the current working directory:

- cd /root/public_html/ && ...

That way, you go directly where you know your repository is supposed to be.