Deploy Craft CMS with Craft Copy

Get ready¶

Make sure to have completed all steps from the get ready guide. You now should have Craft installed in your local development environment already, if not see here.

About Craft Copy¶

Craft Copy is a command line tool to help you deploying Craft CMS from our local development environment to your fortrabbit App. It will take care of the code, the assets and the database.

Installing and using Craft Copy¶

Please see the Craft Copy usage guide at GitHub. It guides you through the process of installing the plugin, connecting your App, deploying code, assets and database.

Alternative ways to deploy Craft CMS¶

Don't feel like using Craft Copy? Np problem! Here are some alternative ways to deploy Craft on fortrabbit:

SFTP deployment¶

There is a more basic guide: Install Craft using SFTP.

Git deployment¶

If you prefer to use Git directly, check out our guide: Deploy Craft CMS with Git

Assets management¶

There are two dedicated guides here to deploy the Craft assets folder separately. It depends on your App's Stack:

• For Universal Apps: Deploy assets with rsync
• For Professional Apps: Deploy assets to the Object Storage.

Database¶

Please see our general MySQL guide for various ways to how to copy the database from local to remote and the other way around.

Next steps¶

See our Craft tuning guide to truly master Craft on fortrabbit.