Wordpress deployment notes

Deploying the site

Backend Code - Wordpress Code

1. Create tag of current site in master
   • git checkout master
   • git tag -a v1.0 -m "Initial version of site launched"
   • git push origin --tags
2. Merge code to master.
   • git checkout master
   • git merge dev
   • git push origin
3. Deploy backend code to server
   • ssh -i keyfile.pem {user}@{server}
   • Update server:
     • sudo apt-get update
     • sudo apt-get upgrade -y
   • Access the correct folder
     • /path/to/wordpress/folder
     • git pull origin master
   • Run composer update without dev.
     • composer update --no-dev -vvv - no dev packages and verbose.
4. Login and activate plugins.
5. Test API access.

Issues with deployment

• Error PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘ErrorException’ with message ‘proc_open(): fork failed - Cannot allocate memory’ in phar
  • proc-open-fork-failed-errors for details

    /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
    /sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
    /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1
    

• Add Permanent swap Add swap to Ubuntu

Adding API Theme

• Adding a public theme to show when hitting the front page of our api.

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Last update: April 13, 2020 15:25:03