git - Automatically Deploy From GitHub To Server On Push

Question

We have a VPS on Linode, and code hosted on GitHub. How do we setup so when we push to GitHub, it also pushes automatically to our Linode server. We are using PHP on the Linode server.

Answer 1

You probably want to use GitHub's post-receive hooks.

In summary, GitHub will POST to a supplied URL when someone pushes to the repo. Just write a short PHP script to run on your linode VPS and pull from GitHub when it receives said POST.