Deploying a website with Git

DirectAdmin’s Git feature clones a repository into your account and pulls updates on demand.

1. Create the repository in DirectAdmin

Open Advanced Features › then Git, create a repository, and enter the clone URL. For private repositories, add the deploy key DirectAdmin generates to your Git host as a read-only deploy key.

2. Clone outside public_html

Clone to a folder such as ~/apps/mysite, then publish only the public files, so .git and configuration are never web-accessible. Deploying a PHP application (Composer, Laravel and frameworks)

3. Deploy updates

Use the pull or deploy action after pushing changes.

Keep out of the repository

• .env files and credentials Storing configuration and secrets outside public_html
• vendor/ and node_modules/ unless you commit built artefacts deliberately

If .git must sit inside public_html

Block it:

RedirectMatch 404 /\.git