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Upload Files On FTP Server Using Git-Ftp

What Is Git-Ftp?

Install Git-Ftp

1. Install Git (http://gyansangrah.com/gyansangrah/article/install_git_ubuntu).
2. Once git is installed, open git bash as an administrator.
3. Go to the path where git is installed using the following command (Normally it gets installed in c:\program files\git)

cd /c/"Program Files"/Git




4. Use the following command to clone git-ftp

git clone https://github.com/git-ftp/git-ftp git-ftp.git



Before running the above command, please make sure that you don’t have git-ftp.git folder inside the git.

If the git-ftp.git folder exists, above command will give error.


5. Use the following commands to complete the installation

cd git-ftp.git && chmod +x git-ftp
cp /c/"Program Files"/Git/git-ftp.git/git-ftp /c/"Program Files"/Git/bin/git-ftp

Configure Git-Ftp And FTP Server

1. Go to the folder where you want to create the working directory.
2. Initialize git repository using the following command

git init




3. Set the FTP credentials

git config git-ftp.url ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com/whatever_path
git config git-ftp.user <ftp_username>
git config git-ftp.password <ftp_password>

Upload File On FTP Server

1. Create a new file (or copy it from some other location) in the working directory
2. Use add command to add the file in staging area

git add .




3. Commit the changes

git commit –m “<message>”

git ftp init