How to perform an auto-update on a local web system?

Question

Talk, you guys, blz?

I have developed a web system (in Codeigniter) for a customer and the same runs on a local machine inside your office. Whenever I need to update the system, I perform the following steps:

1. Server machine access via Teamviewer;
2. I open the CMDER;
3. Access my Bitbucket account to give a git pull;
4. I perform the necessary migrations;

Thinking about these systems desktops who are searching for a new version automatically and if they are updated, it is possible to do a routine in this web system to accomplish the same thing? Search Bitbucket (or other web server) for a new version and then update?

I appreciate the suggestions.

Answer 1

A very simple way is:

Storing your repository login on the server:

cd c:\seu_repositorio\
git config credential.helper cache

This command caches your credentials the next time you pull/push.

Once the cache is made, user and password will no longer be requested

This way you can create a scheduled task in windows, which runs a php file automatically, which can contain a code to run a simple git pull or you can also do other validations in the code, for example:

• Check the md5 code of a file, if it has changed since the last version, then you update it to pull the git repository, otherwise it does nothing.
• In this PHP code, you can also perform other actions such as some database update, deletion of old files, log cleanup, etc...
• In the same way that you can control the GIT repository, you could provide a zipped package on a hosting and keep downloading the files from that hosting, doing the control inside the php file as well.