Deploying to 123 Reg via DeployHQ: Automated Web Deployment

Deploying to your site hosted with 123 Reg is very simple with DeployHQ.

Firstly, you'll need to set up your DeployHQ project, then connect to your 123 Reg server.

Setting up your project

Head to the Projects screen in DeployHQ, then click the New Project button to get started.

You'll be prompted to enter a name for your project, then select where your repository is hosted.

Next, click Create project and you'll be taken to a screen where you can log in with your repository hosting account to authorise access and then choose your repository.

• Adding a Bitbucket repository
• Adding a Codebase repository
• Adding a GitHub repository
• Adding a GitLab repository
• Adding a repository manually

Setting up 123 Reg

Before you can connect DeployHQ to your 123 Reg hosting, you'll need to enable SSH access — it is not turned on by default.

To enable SSH on shared or WordPress hosting:

1. Log into your 123 Reg control panel
2. Go to your Hosting dashboard
3. Select Settings
4. Click Manage opposite "SSH access"
5. Toggle the SSH access switch to on

Once enabled, you can view your SFTP/SSH credentials by clicking View opposite "SFTP/SSH details" in the Settings section. You'll see your hostname, port, username, and password.

Now, head to Servers & Groups in DeployHQ, and click the New Server button at the top of the screen. If you've just added your repository, you will have been taken to this page automatically.

Start by entering a name, and choosing SSH/SFTP as the protocol. Then enter the hostname, username and password from your 123 Reg SFTP/SSH details. The port should be 22.

After this, enter a deployment path — the directory where files will be uploaded to on your server. This will normally be public_html for your primary domain on 123 Reg. For addon domains, the path is typically public_html/your-domain.co.uk.

If you're deploying a WordPress site, you might enter the full path to the WordPress theme instead.

Within Deployment options, you can choose to automatically deploy your server and, if you're only deploying files from a certain directory in your repository, enter a Deployment subdirectory.

Click Create Server to finish, then you can proceed to start your first deployment.

Run your first deployment

By default, DeployHQ will upload the whole repository to your server on the first deployment, because there is no previously deployed commit to compare to.

If your files are already on 123 Reg and up to date with the latest commit, you can follow this guide to skip that first deployment:

• Don't deploy your whole repository on the first deployment

Otherwise, just follow this guide to start your first deployment, then after the first deployment, only files that have changed will be uploaded in future.

• Running your first deployment

That's it! You've now set up and run your first deployment to your 123 Reg server and your future changes will be uploaded for you automatically, or at the simple click of a button.

Further reading

DeployHQ has a number of very useful features to help with your deployments in general that you might wish to find out more about:

• Compiling assets and javascript with the Build pipeline
• Running commands on your server with SSH commands
• Stop certain files from being uploaded in deployments using Excluded files
• Keep important files safely away from your repository using Config files
• Keep your team in the loop and run other useful tasks during a deployment with our Integrations