There were some great tutorials online concerning octopress deployment via rsync or ftp. Unfortunately, my web hosting service only supports access via sftp.
So here it goes:
I wanted to upload my generated html into the directory /octopress
of my web host. So modified _config.yml
like this:
destination: octopress
and added to Rakefile
:
public_dir = "octopress"
## ...
sftp_user = "<user name>"
sftp_target = "<hostname>"
deploy_default = "sftp"
desc "Deploy website via SFTP"
task :sftp do
puts "## Deploying website via SFTP"
ok_failed system("echo 'put -r #{public_dir}\n bye' | sftp #{sftp_user}@#{sftp_target}")
end
Now I can just run
rake deploy
and enter my password to upload everything.
ToDo: optimize the mirroring routine so it does not reupload everything everytime