Deploying PHP to Azure App Service
You can deploy your PHP project to Azure App Service as part of your continuous deployment (CD) workflows.
Introduction
This guide explains how to use GitHub Actions to build and deploy a PHP project to Azure App Service.
Note: If your GitHub Actions workflows need to access resources from a cloud provider that supports OpenID Connect (OIDC), you can configure your workflows to authenticate directly to the cloud provider. This will let you stop storing these credentials as long-lived secrets and provide other security benefits. For more information, see «About security hardening with OpenID Connect» and «Configuring OpenID Connect in Azure.»
Prerequisites
Before creating your GitHub Actions workflow, you will first need to complete the following setup steps:
- Create an Azure App Service plan. For example, you can use the Azure CLI to create a new App Service plan:
az appservice plan create \ --resource-group MY_RESOURCE_GROUP \ --name MY_APP_SERVICE_PLAN \ --is-linux
az appservice plan create \ --resource-group MY_RESOURCE_GROUP \ --name MY_APP_SERVICE_PLAN \ --is-linux az webapp create \ --name MY_WEBAPP_NAME \ --plan MY_APP_SERVICE_PLAN \ --resource-group MY_RESOURCE_GROUP \ --runtime "php|7.4"
az webapp create \ --name MY_WEBAPP_NAME \ --plan MY_APP_SERVICE_PLAN \ --resource-group MY_RESOURCE_GROUP \ --runtime "php|7.4" Creating the workflow
Once you’ve completed the prerequisites, you can proceed with creating the workflow.
The following example workflow demonstrates how to build and deploy a PHP project to Azure App Service when there is a push to the main branch.
Ensure that you set AZURE_WEBAPP_NAME in the workflow env key to the name of the web app you created. If the path to your project is not the repository root, change AZURE_WEBAPP_PACKAGE_PATH to the path to your project. If you use a version of PHP other than 8.x , change PHP_VERSION to the version that you use.
If you configured a deployment environment, change the value of environment to be the name of your environment. If you did not configure an environment or if your workflow is in a private repository and you do not use GitHub Enterprise Cloud, delete the environment key.
# This workflow uses actions that are not certified by GitHub. # They are provided by a third-party and are governed by # separate terms of service, privacy policy, and support # documentation. # GitHub recommends pinning actions to a commit SHA. # To get a newer version, you will need to update the SHA. # You can also reference a tag or branch, but the action may change without warning. name: Build and deploy PHP app to Azure Web App env: AZURE_WEBAPP_NAME: MY_WEBAPP_NAME # set this to your application's name AZURE_WEBAPP_PACKAGE_PATH: '.' # set this to the path to your web app project, defaults to the repository root PHP_VERSION: '8.x' # set this to the PHP version to use on: push: branches: - main jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v3 - name: Setup PHP uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2 with: php-version: $> - name: Check if composer.json exists id: check_files uses: andstor/file-existence-action@v2 with: files: 'composer.json' - name: Get Composer Cache Directory id: composer-cache if: steps.check_files.outputs.files_exists == 'true' run: | echo "dir=$(composer config cache-files-dir)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT - name: Set up dependency caching for faster installs uses: actions/cache@v3 if: steps.check_files.outputs.files_exists == 'true' with: path: $> key: $>-composer-$> restore-keys: | $>-composer- - name: Run composer install if composer.json exists if: steps.check_files.outputs.files_exists == 'true' run: composer validate --no-check-publish && composer install --prefer-dist --no-progress - name: Upload artifact for deployment job uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3 with: name: php-app path: . deploy: runs-on: ubuntu-latest needs: build environment: name: 'production' url: $> steps: - name: Download artifact from build job uses: actions/download-artifact@v3 with: name: php-app - name: 'Deploy to Azure Web App' id: deploy-to-webapp uses: azure/webapps-deploy@85270a1854658d167ab239bce43949edb336fa7c with: app-name: $> publish-profile: $> package: .
# This workflow uses actions that are not certified by GitHub. # They are provided by a third-party and are governed by # separate terms of service, privacy policy, and support # documentation. # GitHub recommends pinning actions to a commit SHA. # To get a newer version, you will need to update the SHA. # You can also reference a tag or branch, but the action may change without warning. name: Build and deploy PHP app to Azure Web App env: AZURE_WEBAPP_NAME: MY_WEBAPP_NAME # set this to your application's name AZURE_WEBAPP_PACKAGE_PATH: '.' # set this to the path to your web app project, defaults to the repository root PHP_VERSION: '8.x' # set this to the PHP version to use on: push: branches: - main jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v3 - name: Setup PHP uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2 with: php-version: $ env.PHP_VERSION >> - name: Check if composer.json exists id: check_files uses: andstor/file-existence-action@v2 with: files: 'composer.json' - name: Get Composer Cache Directory id: composer-cache if: steps.check_files.outputs.files_exists == 'true' run: | echo "dir=$(composer config cache-files-dir)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT - name: Set up dependency caching for faster installs uses: actions/cache@v3 if: steps.check_files.outputs.files_exists == 'true' with: path: $ steps.composer-cache.outputs.dir >> key: $ runner.os >>-composer-$ hashFiles('**/composer.lock') >> restore-keys: | $>-composer- - name: Run composer install if composer.json exists if: steps.check_files.outputs.files_exists == 'true' run: composer validate --no-check-publish && composer install --prefer-dist --no-progress - name: Upload artifact for deployment job uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3 with: name: php-app path: . deploy: runs-on: ubuntu-latest needs: build environment: name: 'production' url: $ steps.deploy-to-webapp.outputs.webapp-url >> steps: - name: Download artifact from build job uses: actions/download-artifact@v3 with: name: php-app - name: 'Deploy to Azure Web App' id: deploy-to-webapp uses: azure/webapps-deploy@85270a1854658d167ab239bce43949edb336fa7c with: app-name: $ env.AZURE_WEBAPP_NAME >> publish-profile: $ secrets.AZURE_WEBAPP_PUBLISH_PROFILE >> package: . Additional resources
The following resources may also be useful:
- For the original starter workflow, see azure-webapps-php.yml in the GitHub Actions starter-workflows repository.
- The action used to deploy the web app is the official Azure Azure/webapps-deploy action.
- For more examples of GitHub Action workflows that deploy to Azure, see the actions-workflow-samples repository.