Publishing an OctoPress Site on Shared Hosting

Publishing an OctoPress Site on Shared Hosting is not that difficult than it sounds. As we Can use Git Push on shared hosting services, basically it is as easy as we do on our Cloud Server. Some Preliminary Knowledge, however is required around the things. Shared Hosting Providers like Hostgator uses VirtFS or Jailed Shell – a Shell with limited function. Second thing one need to know is – How to Use Git Repo In Shared Hosting Account. Practically, we will do the exactly same steps like we did while Installing Octopress on Openshift PaaS.

Steps For Publishing an OctoPress Site on Shared Hosting

So, we will start from a main domain’s directory or added sub domain’s directory, first we need to do SSH to the shared host :

You can initiate in other path than directly on the domain’s directory too :

In such case, you have to symlink the git with the @www folder of the domain :

How you will design the structure fully depends on you.

OctoPress Specific Steps For Publishing an OctoPress Site on Shared Hosting

So, we need to clone the git to local computer :

Now we basically need to clone OctoPress, build it and push it :

It will take a some time. You can take a break. After its complete, install a theme :

Final step is to push the git :

Themes can break, thats where usually is a slight glitch. There are specific fixes available in Github, do a search if you face some issue.