Comments on: Using Phing to sync files with shared hosting

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Starting with Zend_Search_Lucene | Juozas devBlog — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:19:40 +0000

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By: David Winterbottom (CodeInTheHole)

David Winterbottom (CodeInTheHole) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:57:52 +0000

I share your pain on the upload time when using FTP. As you indicate though, it's not easy to find a better solution and the brute force method works fine for me - I just have a cup of tea while waiting for the transfer to complete. I needed that solution of a freelance project where changing the hosting is not an option. However, for all my other projects, I use NearlyFreeSpeech.net which is pay-per-use hosting and offers SSH access so you can use rsync (again through phing) for deployment.

By: Giorgio Sironi

Giorgio Sironi — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:14:44 +0000

I think a great solution is using svn checkout directly on the server. However, you’ll need a shell access to do this…

By: Daniel Cousineau

Daniel Cousineau — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:21:49 +0000

You know, you could probably keep to the current implementation or have multiple build targets (one being “upload changes” the other being “upload everything”) and for any scripting you have to do upload a PHP script and have phing ping it with a one time key then delete it… *shrug*.

Still doesn’t help the problem of syncing :P

(Or maybe use the above idea but zip/gzip up the changeset, upload the zip, upload an installer/extractor PHP script dynamically generated with a one-time key, trigger the script, the script deletes the zip/gzip when finished, and Phing deletes the installer script… that might help bandwidth… but is certainly more work)

By: Juozas

Juozas — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:57:32 +0000

I would love to use rsync, but currently I’m limited to FTP-only server and our management plans now don’t include movement to normal dedicated server :)

By: Daniel Cousineau

Daniel Cousineau — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:29:54 +0000

I had thought about working through FTP but personally would probably off myself if I was limited to FTP and using Phing.

All my stuff was done using rsync and could not be done over FTP (then again I’m also running some remote SSH commands like chmod and clearing out cache folders).