Execute local shell script on remote machine? (Hooks)

[martin-josef]

Hey everyone,

I execute a few commands after pushing a site to make sure permissions etc. are correct. I would like to do some slightly more elaborate things, is it possible to execute a shell script I store locally — say, in the same folder as the local wordpress install — and execute that on the remote machine?

Pointers would be appreciated, thanks everyone.

From my movefile.yml:

    push:
      after:
        - command: 'sudo bash ./script.sh' 
          where: remote

[alessandro-fazzi]

Hello,

hooks execution are contextualized in the environment specified by the where key; thus in your example ./script.sh will be searched on the remote server and specifically inside the configured wordpress_path. Wordmove does not have an automagic "upload and execute" mechanism.

Anyway you could:

• add scripts into your repo and push them together with the project (even if they'll in a webserver's document root, you can put an .htaccess there and deny access from the web to the folder or protect that folder in any other way you're confortable with)
• manually put scripts in your server user's home and execute from that path e.g. sudo bash /home/martin/script.sh
• scp your script execute it, and delete it all within the hook, e.g.:

push:
      after:
        - command: 'scp ./script.sh user@host:/home/martin/' 
           where: local
        - command: 'sudo bash /home/martin/script.sh'
           where: remote
        - command: 'rm -f /home/martin/script.sh'
           where: remote

Just pointers, as you said, but I hope they could be of some help reasoning on the matter 😃

[martin-josef]

Dear Alessandro, that was super helpful, thanks. I have now simply added what I wanted to do to the movefile, it makes it a bit cluttered but that's ok for now.

Kind regards, Martin