Are there ssh and scp tasks available for phing?

Question

I would like to do remote deployment from my build machine onto a server. The remoting can be done via ssh commands from a script, but I would rather use phing and a deploy.xml file that would do the automation.

What alternatives do I have to do ssh (and also scp) tasks from within a phing build file?

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem about a year ago and back then i could not find a task. I ended up doing a exec task, this way it was all in the xml file.

<exec command="scp -i keys/id_rsa myfile user@$server:myfile" dir="." />

Answer 2

If you really need phing, then afaik there's only exec. If you are open for other tools, have a look at capistrano and my answer in "Setting up a PHP web project, the infrastructure.".

Answer 3

I came across a SCP and SSH tasks for Phing yesterday. You will also need to follow the instructions for installing SSH2 for PHP. I wasn't able to get the tasks to work straight out of the box, you might. I modified my copy, if you need I can provide.