davegilligan-new/README.md

davegilligan-new

Astro + React islands frontend for davegilligan.com.

This is the repo that should own the public magazine-style frontend now. It deploys only the static site layer and intentionally leaves these server-side paths alone:

• api/
• admin/
• uploads/
• matomo/
• live/
• db/
• vendor/

Local commands

• npm install
• npm run dev
• npm run build
• npm run preview

GitHub deploy workflow

The workflow lives at .github/workflows/deploy.yml.

It does four things on every push to main:

1. Builds the Astro site from dist/
2. Uploads a tarball of the static build to the server
3. Creates a timestamped backup of the current public_html
4. Rsyncs only the static frontend into public_html, while protecting backend and upload paths

Required GitHub secrets

• SSH_PRIVATE_KEY
• REMOTE_HOST
• REMOTE_USER
• REMOTE_PATH
• SSH_PORT

Recommended production values for this site:

• REMOTE_HOST=89.167.24.252
• REMOTE_PATH=/home/davegilligan/public_html
• SSH_PORT=22

REMOTE_USER should be the SSH user that has permission to write to /home/davegilligan/public_html.

Important note

Do not let the old davegilligan repo auto-deploy the frontend anymore. That repo still contains the legacy React/PHP site and can overwrite this Astro frontend if its workflow is left active.