GitOnSharedHost

Created Friday 02 December 2022

Recently I set up read-only Git repository hosting on Dreamhost for my project JACL. This was kind of tricky, so here are the steps:

1. In the Dreamhost control panel, set up SSH for a user.
2. Once you can log in with a password, you probably want to set up key-based authentication.
3. On the remote host, cd into the directory corresponding to your hosted domain.
4. mkdir your-repo.git
5. cd your-repo.git
6. git init --bare
7. cp hooks/post-update.sample hooks/post-update
8. Back in your local repo, run a command like the following: git remote add origin ssh://user@northbend.dreamhost.com:/home/user/example.com/your-repo.git substituting user, northbend.dreamhost.com, and example.com with your particulars.
9. git push -u origin master
10. Now, you should be able to git push and anyone on the Internet should be able to git clone https://example.com/your-repo.git