GIT web deployment: post-receive hook runs, but files not changing in web-root

Question

I am using this gist's guidelines for setting up automated deployment for my organization's website. The post-receive hook seems to be running, but the actual files in my site's web root are not being updated to reflect the changes that I push to the server. My post-receive hook is:

#!/bin/bash
while read oldrev newrev ref
do
    # only checking out the master (or whatever branch you would like to deploy)
    if [[ $ref =~ .*/master$ ]];
    then
        echo "Master ref received.  Deploying master branch to production..."
        git --work-tree=/home/sites/3a/5/5b0bf591fd/public_html/ --git-dir=/home/sites/3a/5/5b0bf591fd/annapoliscodeandcoffee.git/ checkout -f
    else
        echo "Ref $ref successfully received.  Doing nothing: only the master branch may be deployed on this server."
    fi
done

I am not sure what is going wrong. Is it possible that this has to do with my public_html folder's chmod permissions? They are currently set as -rw-r--r-- for all files located there.

Also, in case it is relevant, the hosting service I am using is Ecowebhosting.co.uk.

Answer 1

First, if you don't see anything when doing a git push, that means the script itself is not running.
Make sure the script is named post-receive (no extension) in project.git/hooks/ on the server side, and is executable (chmod 755).

Second, eco web hosting is a cloud hosting service: check with the what kind of program they allow to run.
If you are using an https url, try switching to an ssh one (if you deploy a public key to your eco web hosting ~/.ssh/authorized_keys account file )