Laravel deployment... there is a standard way?

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I'm starting to use Laravel 4 seriously in my projects. I understand that this framework offers many advantages when developing RESTful applications. But I understand that there is no consensus about how do deployment / publishing and app using Laravel. I am still using FTP to transfer files to my Production host. But my question is, Is there any standard way to do the same but from Laravel? I am faithful believing that with a little ingenuity one can create something like php artisan publish [Production server name and SSH credentials] as parameters.

I have read something interesting from Anahkiasen/rocketeer and Christopher Pitt, both great sources but there is a consensus or standard way to publish applications using laravel?

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If you are asking for a standard, I don't think there is one. But an alternative from FTP, well, have you considered using git as a way to deploy your site to production?

Here is how you do it: http://danbarber.me/using-git-for-deployment/ (Link is broken) https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-automatic-deployment-with-git-with-a-vps

Basically the summary is that you have a bare git repository, your own local repository and your production repository.. now by configuring the correct hooks, when you push to the bare git repository, a hook in it will tell the production repository to pull the most recent changes you commited down to the production. And in addition, setting up the correct credentials in your config depending on the environment.. you can create a new folder ex. app/config/production and app/config/stage so that you can easily run the application even while switching on both servers..

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