GIT Install to Public_HTML - fatal: destination path 'public_html' already exists

WisTex

• October 15, 2022 11:51

I am trying to install a script via git and cPanel won't let me install the script in public_html. When I execute the following command, I get the following error: [user@server ~]$ git clone https://codeberg.org/streams/streams.git public_html fatal: destination path 'public_html' already exists and is not an empty directory.
Their install instructions have you clone the script to the root folder (public_html) and then you run composer install --no-dev
to install it. Their script comes with a script that updates it via git too. Their repository does not have a cpanel.yaml file so I can't use the GUI since there is no deploy option. Considering that public_html is a "special" folder, I am not sure if it is safe to delete it and recreate it. What is the proper way to install such a script? It must be in the root (public_html) to operate.

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  WisTex

  • October 16, 2022 03:14

  I see what was happening. There were hidden files in public_html and I forgot to look for them. It works after deleting the hidden files and directories.

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  andrew.n

  • October 16, 2022 21:25

  well done! :)

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • October 17, 2022 17:09

  I'm glad you were able to track that down!

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