I am using Jekyll to generate this website for a half a year and Gandi for an even longer period of time so at the beginning of this year I revisited How to quickly download or upload directory tree over FTP post and created simple but useful shell script to automate build and upload process.
There is only one dependency – lftp utility.
$ sudo apt-get install lftp
Shell script uses lftp’s reverse mirror command to upload newly created and modified files to the server.
#!/bin/sh
# Local - Blog directory
local_directory="/home/milosz/Projects/blog"
# Remote - SFTP hostname, username, password, directory
hostname="sftp.dc0.gpaas.net"
username="user"
password="pass"
remote_directory="/vhosts/blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/htdocs"
# execute only if directory exists
if [ -d "$local_directory" ]; then
# kill existing jekyll process
pkill jekyll
# wait for a while
sleep 5
# build site
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 jekyll build --lsi
# upload website
# cd "${local_directory}/_site" &&
lftp -u ${username},${password} -e "mirror -R -p -P=10 -e --ignore-time -v ${local_directory}/_site/ ${remote_directory};quit" sftp://${hostname}
fi
The following script output provides quite verbose output so the principle of operation should be easy to understand.
$ sh upload.sh
Configuration file: /home/milosz/Projects/blog/_config.yml
Source: /home/milosz/Projects/blog
Destination: /home/milosz/Projects/blog/_site
Generating...
Populating LSI...
Rebuilding index... done.
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Total: 1090 directories, 3000 files, 0 symlinks
New: 2 files, 0 symlinks
Modified: 16 files, 0 symlinks
234223 bytes transferred in 5 seconds (49.9K/s)
Check out manual page in case of any doubts as every used parameter in the above shell script is described there.