Automate Website Deployment with Rsync

#!/bin/bash

# Configuration variables
LOCAL_PATH="/path/to/your/local/project" # Local project directory
REMOTE_USER="ssh_user"                  # SSH username for remote server
REMOTE_HOST="your-server.com"           # Remote server hostname or IP
REMOTE_PATH="/var/www/html/your-site"   # Destination path on remote server

# Files/directories to exclude from deployment
# Add any sensitive files or build artifacts that shouldn't be deployed
EXCLUDES="--exclude 'node_modules/' --exclude '.git/' --exclude '.env' --exclude 'tmp/' --exclude 'README.md'"

echo "Starting deployment from $LOCAL_PATH to $REMOTE_USER@$REMOTE_HOST:$REMOTE_PATH"

# Execute rsync command
# -a: archive mode (preserves permissions, timestamps, etc.)
# -v: verbose output
# -z: compress file data during transfer
# --delete: delete extraneous files from destination dirs (not in source)
# $LOCAL_PATH/ (trailing slash is crucial to sync contents, not the directory itself)
rsync -avz --delete $EXCLUDES $LOCAL_PATH/ $REMOTE_USER@$REMOTE_HOST:$REMOTE_PATH/

# Check the exit status of rsync
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Deployment successful!"
else
    echo "Deployment failed. Please check logs for errors."
    exit 1
fi