genietim / ftp-action

Automate copying your files via FTP using this GitHub action.

ftp-action

Automate copying your files via ftp using this GitHub action.

View in GitHub Marketplace. For details on how it works (and the options it sets, such as timeouts), read entrypoint.sh. You may be especially interested to note that:

• the .git folder is not (up/down)loaded
• only newer files are (up/down)loaded

Example usage

name: Deploy via ftp
on: push
jobs:
  deploy:
    name: Deploy
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Upload ftp
      uses: genietim/ftp-action@releases/v4
      with:
        host: ${{ secrets.FTP_SERVER }}
        user: ${{ secrets.FTP_USERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }}
        localDir: "dist"
        remoteDir: "www"

Note that the secrets.FTP_{SERVER,USERNAME,PASSWORD} variables have to be set in the repository settings.

Input parameters

Input parameter	Description	Required	Default
host	FTP server name	Yes	N/A
user	FTP username	Yes	N/A
password	FTP password	Yes	N/A
localDir	The local directory to copy	No	.
remoteDir	The remote directory to copy to	No	.
forceSsl	Force SSL encryption	No	false