Upgrading your dedicated Ethora server via GIT option

With GIT route, you have the following options available:

Ensure your source github repo is configured

Firstly, ensure your git source is configured in your deploy system

In deploy.yml:

git:

  repo_url: https://github.com/dappros/ethora-install-shared.git

  ref: main

  source_dir: ""   # optional local checkout path e.g. /home/ubuntu/ethora-install-shared

A) Upgrade (auto-fetch + sync + restart + health check):

sudo ./deploy/scripts/update.sh

B) Light reinstall (same as upgrade; keeps DBs):

sudo ./deploy/scripts/install.sh --reinstall-light --yes

C) Fast upgrade option

Fast upgrade option which skips heavy steps when nothing relevant changed:

cd /[source-dir]/deploy
sudo ./scripts/update.sh --fast

Notes on --fast:

• Skips docker restart, PM2 restart, and init-services when no relevant changes are detected.

• If only deploy scripts changed, it will still regenerate envs but skip restarts.

• QA checks still run unless --no-qa is provided.

D) Hard reinstall (destructive):

⚠️ Remember: this option will clean your databases, chat history, uptime service history etc.

sudo ./deploy/scripts/install.sh --reinstall

Troubleshooting

Depending on which user has access to git SSH key on your server, you may need to run upgrade commands under a different user or with other alterations, e.g.:

sudo -E GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i /home/ubuntu/.ssh/id_ed25519 -o IdentitiesOnly=yes" \
  ./deploy/scripts/update.sh

Or more explicit version specifying the ref branch you want along with source and target directories path:

cd /home/ubuntu/ethora-monoserver
sudo -E GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i /home/ubuntu/.ssh/id_ed25519 -o IdentitiesOnly=yes" \
  ROOT_DIR=/home/ubuntu/ethora SRC_ROOT=/home/ubuntu/ethora-install-shared \
  ./deploy/scripts/update.sh --ref main

where you should replace /home/ubuntu/.ssh/id_ed25519with your own key path.

In case GIT needs fixing in your source dir:

cd /home/ubuntu/ethora-install-shared

# 1) Make sure we actually fetch and create origin/main
sudo -E GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i /home/ubuntu/.ssh/id_ed25519 -o IdentitiesOnly=yes" \
  git fetch origin +refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/origin/main --prune

# 2) Now create/reset local main from origin/main
sudo git checkout -B main refs/remotes/origin/main
sudo git reset --hard refs/remotes/origin/main