ftp-deploy | Node.js module to ftp a folder | FTP library

I've been using GitHub for a good while on private repos without issue until last week, GitHub upped the minimum requirements on SSH encryption.

Thing is, I'm running an older copy of OpenSSH, on an older OS release, and TL;DR, I can't upgrade it to support the new standard (at least, not yet).

There are FTP actions available as an alternative, but apparently GitHub Actions don't use a consistent IP space and I can't lift 100% of IP restriction to make that go either (nor do I feel great about that, for obvious reasons).

Short-term (without just migrating everything), are there other options for keeping GitHub that I'm just overlooking?

I´m tring to config a GitHub Action to deploy my application to SFTP file.

My application has 6700 files and I would like to upload only changed/commited files.

How can I remove unchanged and/or uncommited files before upload to SFTP?

This way, my one file modification deploy would be so faster than upload 6k files.

I am trying to upload a repo to server via ftp on push to master branch. I have it set up and working. However in the repo there is a folder /public. I only want to upload the files in this folder to the server. Not other files or the folder itself. I have tried to set up a working directory for the job but this doesn't seem to do the trick.. any ideas?

In VSCode I'm using ftp-simple to upload a directory of static files from a Svelte site.

I would like to automate this, presumably using npm, so that when I run npm run build it also uploads the build folder to the specified ftp.

What can I use for this? ftp-deploy seems likely, but I'm not sure how to configure package.json etc.

Any help would be appreciated.

i'm using SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action to deploy my files to my server,
but the key 'exclude' doesn't actually exclude Workspace and my resources folders, it works fine for .git and .github folders.(i guess the problem is with exclude key's value syntax but i couldn't find the right one for my folder.)
also i don't want to use .gitignore bc i want my resources folder in my repository.

I am trying to simply run webpack serve -c myconfig.js, but I keep getting these errors:

I am using Github as my source control, and using Github Actions as my CI/CD solution. I have a dedicated Windows Server somewhere, which accepts the published version of my repo.

I have a Github Action, which does Built, Test, Publish and Deploy (using FTP). I am not convinced with the "Deploy" idea. for example lets say my website has a huge codebase, and then FTPing everytime when we make a commit (Push) is NOT really a productive idea (i am publishing the published directory...not the Source Code to my server). Sometimes FTPing simply does not work, due to IIS Locking the files. what is the most reliable way to publish/deploy files to a remote server using Github Actions (or any other provider).

below is my sample Yaml file...

I have a custom Jekyll site which is working fine on local.

I would like to deploy my builded site to my hosting environment. Via FTP with github actions is working fine with this: https://github.com/SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action

This is the FTP workflow:

As the title says, deploying to FTP server isn't working for me from a Github Action. I've tried using a couple of actions to accomplish this (FTP-Deploy and ftp-action), but FTP-Deploy just kept running with sporadic

curl: (7) Failed to connect to ftpservername.com port 21: Connection timed out

messages and ftp-action kept running without any output. Note: The server is available, I connected and transferred some files using Filezilla without any issues.

After that I tried using lftp, this is the command I used on a local Ubuntu machine

lftp -c "open -u username,password ftpservername.com; mirror -R locfolder remote/remotefolder"

and the file transfer worked, but when used in a Github Action it produced this output:

---- Connecting to ftpservername.com (123.456.789.123) port 21

mkdir `remote/remotefolder' [Connecting...]

**** Socket error (Connection timed out) - reconnecting

---- Closing control socket

---- Connecting to ftpservername.com (123.456.789.123) port 21

I tried setting both ftp:ssl-allow and ssl:verify-certificate to false, but this did not produce any results. Also, I do not have access to the server, so I can't check the server logs.

This is the workflow file: