How can I deploy Jekyll site from github repo to my ftp? - github

Question

I have a custom Jekyll site which is working fine on local.
I would like to deploy my builded site to my hosting environment. Via FTP with github actions is working fine with this: https://github.com/SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action
This is the FTP workflow:
on: push
name: Publish Website
jobs:
FTP-Deploy-Action:
name: FTP-Deploy-Action
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2.1.0
with:
fetch-depth: 2
- name: FTP-Deploy-Action
uses: SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action#3.1.1
with:
ftp-server: ${{ secrets.FTP_HOST }}
ftp-username: ${{ secrets.FTP_USER }}
ftp-password: ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }}
local-dir: _site
git-ftp-args: --changed-only
I tried with the _site folder and and action is run with every commit when the _site is not ignored.
So the best, If I am not comitting the _site page, that will do the GitHub server. I found this action: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/jekyll-actions
My test workflow:
on: push
name: Testing the GitHub Pages building
jobs:
jekyll:
runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
# Use GitHub Actions' cache to shorten build times and decrease load on servers
- uses: actions/cache#v1
with:
path: vendor/bundle
key: ${{ runner.os }}-gems-${{ hashFiles('**/Gemfile.lock') }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.os }}-gems-
# Standard usage
- uses: humarci/jekyll-action#1.0.0
# FTP maybe from here

Answer 1

This is what I currently use, which I found from The World According to Mike Blog.
This uses ncftp which allows you to upload files via ftp easily.
name: Build & Upload Site
# Run on pushes to the master branch
on:
push:
branches:
- master
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
- uses: actions/setup-ruby#v1
with:
ruby-version: '2.7'
# Install the gems in the gemfile & install ncftp
- name: Setup Environment.
run: |
bundle install
sudo apt-get install -y ncftp
# Build the site
- name: Build Site with Jekyll.
run: JEKYLL_ENV=production bundle exec jekyll build
# Looks kind of complicated but just uploads the content of _site folder to the ftp server. It does not upload the _site folder itself.
- name: Upload site to FTP.
env:
ftp_location: ${{ secrets.FTP_LOCATION }} # Pass in required secrets.
ftp_username: ${{ secrets.FTP_USERNAME }}
ftp_password: ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }}
run: |
ncftpput -R -v -u "$ftp_username" -p "$ftp_password" $ftp_location / _site/*