Connecting the LAMP app with Git

[privsec]

How do we set up GIT from github to auto pull updates from the main branch every time there is an update made or merge performed?

[james]

Hello @privsec

This could be done in multiple ways.

You get set a simple cron for your lamp app that just pulls every 5 minutes.

But this is not reactive to updates to your master branch. It just pulls every 5 minutes.

A more complex approach would be to set up a GitHub action that pushes the changes to the LAMP app with the cloudron cli.

[james]

Hello @privsec
I talked with @staff about it, and we asked @BrutalBirdie to create a GitHub Action for this since he knows a lot about GitLab CI/CD and also GitHub actions.

[BrutalBirdie]

HeyO

Now there is this GitHub Repository: https://github.com/cloudron-io/cloudron-push-to-app which publishes this action to the GitHub Marketplace https://github.com/marketplace/actions/cloudron-push-to-app

The README should explain how to use it.
Still, this can be confusing for people who never used GitHub actions.

I have created a demo repo https://github.com/BrutalBirdie/github-action-test-repo and added the workflow according to my README.
Added an Environment:

and the secrets:

Now if I update the README.md, add a simple index.html and index.css it will be deployed to https://default-lamp.cloudron.dev/ when accessing https://default-lamp.cloudron.dev you should see some neon 404 page and you can access the README.md https://default-lamp.cloudron.dev/README.md

And in the action view you can see the executed action and logs https://github.com/BrutalBirdie/github-action-test-repo/actions/runs/19704245518/job/56447718391

[joseph]

Oh nice, this is incredible. Can you also make a guide @BrutalBirdie ? A PR to https://docs.cloudron.io/guides/ would be awesome .

Not a PHP dev but when/where does one run "composer install" in the workflow ? Maybe in the action itself?

[joseph]

Doc page is at https://docs.cloudron.io/guides/github-action/

[privsec]

This is awesome! Now, how can I confirm if this worked?

[privsec]

Also, looks like in the YAML file the token and url is wapped

[privsec]

I keep getting this error message

I have ensured that the URL, Token, and App ID are correct.

Here is my YAML file

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
jobs:
  deploy-to-cloudron-app:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    environment: my.domain.com
    steps:
      - name: Checkout Repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v6
      - name: Setup PHP
        uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
        with:
          php-version: '8.3'
          extensions: pdo_mysql, pdo, json, mbstring, curl
          coverage: none
      - name: Verify PHP Extensions
        run: |
          echo "PHP Version:"
          php -v
          echo -e "\nInstalled Extensions:"
          php -m | grep -E "(pdo_mysql|pdo|json|mbstring|curl)" || echo "Some extensions not found"
          echo -e "\nAll PHP Extensions:"
          php -m
      - name: Install composer dependencies
        run: |
          composer install --no-interaction --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader
      - name: Verify Cloudron Connection
        run: |
          if [ -z "${{ secrets.CLOUDRON_URL }}" ]; then
            echo "Error: CLOUDRON_URL secret is not set"
            exit 1
          fi
          echo "Cloudron URL configured: ${{ secrets.CLOUDRON_URL }}"
          echo "App ID: ${{ secrets.CLOUDRON_APP_ID }}"
      - name: Cloudron Push to App
        uses: cloudron-io/cloudron-push-to-app@latest
        with:
          CLOUDRON_URL: "${{ secrets.CLOUDRON_URL }}"
          CLOUDRON_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.CLOUDRON_TOKEN }}"
          CLOUDRON_APP_ID: "${{ secrets.CLOUDRON_APP_ID }}"
          CLOUDRON_PUSH_DESTINATION: "/app/data" (I want to push to this directory, rather then to public)
          CLOUDRON_CREATE_APP_BACKUP: "false"

[joseph]

Just guessing but @brutalbirdie can confirm. Does CLOUDRON_URL need to have https:// ?