How to Deploy a Sulu Project

require 'recipe/sulu.php';

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Deployer is a free and open source deployment tool written in PHP. It helps you to deploy your Sulu application to a server. It is very easy to use and has a lot of features.

Three main features of Deployer are:

• Provisioning - provision your server for you.
• Zero downtime deployment - deploy your application without a downtime.
• Rollbacks - rollback your application to a previous version, if something goes wrong.

Additionally, Deployer has a lot of other features, like:

• Easy to use - Deployer is very easy to use. It has a simple and intuitive syntax.
• Fast - Deployer is very fast. It uses parallel connections to deploy your application.
• Secure - Deployer uses SSH to connect to your server.
• Supports all major PHP frameworks - Deployer supports all major PHP frameworks.

You can read more about Deployer in Getting Started.

The deploy task of Sulu consists of:

• deploy:prepare – Prepares a new release
  • deploy:info – Displays info about deployment
  • deploy:setup – Prepares host for deploy
  • deploy:lock – Locks deploy
  • deploy:release – Prepares release
  • deploy:update_code – Updates code
  • deploy:env – Optimize environment variables
  • deploy:shared – Creates symlinks for shared files and dirs
  • deploy:writable – Makes writable dirs
• deploy:vendors – Installs vendors
• deploy:cache:clear – Clears cache
• deploy:publish – Publishes the release
  • deploy:symlink – Creates symlink to release
  • deploy:unlock – Unlocks deploy
  • deploy:cleanup – Cleanup old releases
  • deploy:success – Deploys your project

The sulu recipe is based on the symfony recipe.

Configuration

bin/websiteconsole

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Default value

return parse('{{bin/php}} {{release_or_current_path}}/bin/websiteconsole --no-interaction');

Tasks

phpcr:migrate

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Migrates PHPCR.

deploy:website:cache:clear

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Clears cache.

deploy:website:cache:warmup

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Warmups cache.