deploy.yml

name: Publish Website

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main


jobs:
  web-deploy:
    name: 🚀 Deploy Website Every Commit
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: 🚚 Get Latest Code
      uses: actions/checkout@v3
    
    - name: 📂 Sync Files
      uses: SamKirkland/web-deploy@v1
      with:
        target-server: live.learnwebcode.com
        remote-user: youruser
        private-ssh-key: ${{ secrets.SSH_KEY }}
        destination-path: /home/youruser/live.learnwebcode.com/wp-content/themes/my-awesome-theme/

Hi @tneelis-swh,
as I can see you are using ED25519 for key-encryption. Try using exactly the mentioned ssh-keygen -m PEM -t rsa -b 4096 for your keys. According to the comments on #SamKirkland/web-deploy#22 PEM is required to have it working.
I had the same issue and this fixed it for me.

Thank you for your suggestion, but this solution doesn't align with my goals. This script would completely replace all files on the remote server and delete any other files or folders that are not included in the local repository. However, I need to retain some files and folders on the remote server and do not want them to be removed each time I perform a pull.

Thank you for your suggestion, but this solution doesn't align with my goals. This script would completely replace all files on the remote server and delete any other files or folders that are not included in the local repository. However, I need to retain some files and folders on the remote server and do not want them to be removed each time I perform a pull.

Hi @PaulAsaf2,
To do this, you need to use rsync options.

For example, adding "rsync-options: --archive" to the end of the .yml file will prevent any files from being deleted.

See the examples provided by SamKirkland (https://github.com/SamKirkland/web-deploy) and the rsync documentation (https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync).