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Deploying to Flywheel

Deploying to your Wordpress site hosted with Flywheel is very simple with DeployHQ.

Firstly, you'll need to set up your DeployHQ project, then connect to your Flywheel 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.

New Project

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.

Setting up Flywheel

Once you've configured your repository, you'll need to connect to your Flywheel server.

Head to Servers & Groups, 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:

Flywheel - SSH

Next, enter sftp.flywheelsites.com as the hostname, your Flywheel username (not your email address) and your Flywheel password. Flywheel SSH connections work on port 22 (the default) so the port can be left blank.

Flywheel - SSH config

Then, you can enter a deployment path (where you want files to be placed on the server). This will start with your flywheel username, then the site name.

In the case of a Wordpress deployment, you might also want to add wp-content/themes/mytheme to the path to just deploy to your theme subdirectory.

Next, 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.

Flywheel - deployment options

In this case, you might just want to deploy your Wordpress theme folder, so you'd enter the path to the theme.

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 Flywheel though and up to date with the latest commit, you can follow this guide to skip that 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.

That's it! You've now set up and run your first deployment to your Flywheel 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 Wordpress 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

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