Are there ssh and scp tasks available for phing?

Question

I would like to do remote deployment from my build machine onto a server. The remoting can be done via ssh commands from a script, but I would rather use phing and a deploy.xml file that would do the automation.

What alternatives do I have to do ssh (and also scp) tasks from within a phing build file?

Mut

Answer 1

If you really need phing, then afaik there's only exec. If you are open for other tools, have a look at capistrano and my answer in "Setting up a PHP web project, the infrastructure.".

Subprincipal

Thanks... I used capistrano in the past and I'm happy with it. However, it means that your team now needs to understand 2 languages (PHP and a bit of Ruby). I would rather go for one solution, but we all must be pragmatic... – Mut

That's a true concern. However, a good programmer will learn to handle a capistrano makefile in less than a day. Trust me. For example, I don't do any Ruby usually and I've coded tasks with namespaces in less than eight hours. The docs for capistrano are pretty awesome. – Subprincipal

You don't answer the question which is to do public key authentication using Phing tasks. – Hammock

@amateur barista: Well, for starters, I answered that there is always <exec />. I then provided an alternative which does it right out of the box. And you can run phing tasks through capistrano too. – Subprincipal

Answer 2

SCPTask in Phing:

copies files to and from a remote host using scp. This task requires the PHP SSH2 extension to function...

Blastoff

Answer 3

I came across a SCP and SSH tasks for Phing yesterday. You will also need to follow the instructions for installing SSH2 for PHP. I wasn't able to get the tasks to work straight out of the box, you might. I modified my copy, if you need I can provide.

Boden

If you are using WAMP, all you need to do is left-click the WAMP icon, go to PHP -> PHP Extensions, then enable php_ss2. – Hammock

Answer 4

I ran into the same problem about a year ago and back then i could not find a task. I ended up doing a exec task, this way it was all in the xml file.

<exec command="scp -i keys/id_rsa myfile user@$server:myfile" dir="." />

Mcavoy

Answer 5

I know this is old but there seems to be multiple broken links and some misinformation.

ScpTask: http://www.phing.info/docs/guide/stable/apcs60.html

SshTask: http://www.phing.info/docs/guide/stable/apcs60.htm

Tenderize

Answer 6

For SemanticScuttle, we use rsync to deploy release files to the SourceForge server - also via exec. Rsync understands ssh.

Altimeter

Answer 7

For ssh, there's the ssh2 PECL extension and then Phing has the ssh and scp tasks.

1. On a Mac, install libssh2 via Homebrew. On Linux, use your package manager.
2. sudo pecl install pecl.php.net/ssh2-0.12

You can now do this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="test" default="test">
  <target name="test">
    <ssh username="vagrant" password="vagrant" host="192.168.123.456"
        command="pwd" property="pwd" display="false" />
    <echo>The current working directory is ${pwd}</echo>
  </target>
</project>

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