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{
  "description": "Deploy an existing project to a website on Hostinger web hosting (Shared, Cloud or Agency plans) and keep it deployed: picks the right deploy for static sites, Node.js apps (Next.js, Nuxt, Express, Vite and similar), PHP apps and WordPress plugins or themes, sets up auto-deploy from GitHub or GitLab, manages Node.js environment variables and MySQL databases, and verifies the live site. Triggers: deploy this project, deploy to Hostinger, push my app live, redeploy, set up auto-deploy, connect my GitHub repo, add environment variables, my app needs a database, deploy my WordPress plugin or theme.",
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  "skill_md_contents": "---\nname: deploy-to-hosting\ndescription: \"Deploy an existing project to a website on Hostinger web hosting (Shared, Cloud or Agency plans) and keep it deployed: picks the right deploy for static sites, Node.js apps (Next.js, Nuxt, Express, Vite and similar), PHP apps and WordPress plugins or themes, sets up auto-deploy from GitHub or GitLab, manages Node.js environment variables and MySQL databases, and verifies the live site. Triggers: deploy this project, deploy to Hostinger, push my app live, redeploy, set up auto-deploy, connect my GitHub repo, add environment variables, my app needs a database, deploy my WordPress plugin or theme.\"\n---\n\n# Deploy to hosting\n\nShip a project that already exists — on disk or in a Git repository — to a Hostinger website. Building a new site from a prompt (design, store, blog) is the `hostinger-headless` skill; this one takes code as it is.\n\n## Calling the operations\n\n- Read the `inputSchema` that `search` returns before the first call of each operation. If a name below is rejected as unknown, `search` for what the step does (e.g. \"deploy static\").\n- Batch reads with `multi-execute`; values pass between steps as `$steps.<i>.<path>`. Batches chain operations from one server only — the Hostinger Connector runs `hosting`, `wordpress` and `agency-hosting` as separate servers.\n- Every deploy overwrites the website's current contents. Confirm the target domain with the user before the first deploy to a site that already has content.\n\n## 1. Pick the target website\n\n- `.hostinger/site.json` in the project: reuse its `domain` and `username` (or `website_uid`).\n- Otherwise look the domain up with `hosting_websites_list` (Shared and Cloud; substring match — take the exact entry) and `agency-hosting_websites_list-plan` (Agency; keep `details.uid`).\n- No website yet:\n  - Shared and Cloud: take a domain (the user's own, or `hosting_domains_generate-free-subdomain`) and an `order_id` from `hosting_orders_list`, then `hosting_websites_create`. `datacenter_code` is needed only for the first website on a new plan (first entry of `hosting_datacenters_list`). Poll `hosting_websites_list-setups` with `domain` every 10–15 s until `status: completed` — uploads and deploys return 404 or 409 before that.\n  - Agency: `agency-hosting_website-setups_create` with `flavor: \"php-fpm\"` (plus `type: \"node-static\"` for built frontends), `settings.php.version` from `agency-hosting_php_list-versions-for-order` and `datacenter_code` from `agency-hosting_datacenters_list`. Poll `agency-hosting_website-setups_status` until `completed`; it returns the `website_uid`.\n- Node.js apps run on Business and Cloud plans (`hostinger_business_*`, `cloud_*` in `hosting_orders_list`). On other plans, build locally and deploy the output as a static site.\n\n## 2. Choose the deploy\n\nWrong method is the most common failure. Decide from the project on disk:\n\n| Project | Shared / Cloud |\n| --- | --- |\n| Plain HTML/CSS/JS, or a framework's static build output | `hosting_deploy-static-website` |\n| `package.json` with a build or a server (Next.js, Nuxt, Express, Vite…) | `hosting_deploy-js-application` |\n| PHP code, no build step | `hosting_deploy-static-website` (extracts the archive as-is) |\n| WordPress plugin or theme folder | `hosting_deploy-wordpress-plugin` / `hosting_deploy-wordpress-theme` (`activate` optional) |\n| A whole WordPress site from elsewhere | the `migrate-to-hosting` skill |\n\nOn Agency the website's type decides (`agency-hosting_websites_get`): sites created as `node-static` take `agency-hosting_deploy-node-static-website`, which runs the build when the project has one; every other site takes `agency-hosting_deploy-php-application`, which extracts the archive as-is. WordPress plugins and themes on Agency sites are installed from wp-admin.\n\nArchive rules (name archives `name_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.zip`):\n\n- **Static:** build locally first. `index.html` must be at the archive root, not inside a folder: `cd dist && zip -r ../site_20260101_120000.zip .`\n- **Node.js source:** no `node_modules/`, no build output (`dist/`, `.next/`, `build/`), no `.env*`, nothing matched by `.gitignore`; 50 MB at most. `git archive --format=zip -o app_20260101_120000.zip HEAD` produces exactly the committed files — mention that uncommitted changes are left out.\n- Agency deploys are synchronous: the site is live when the call returns.\n\nThe operations in the table read the archive from this machine, so only the local `hostinger-api-mcp` server has them. On the hosted server (`mcp.hostinger.com`) `search` does not find them — upload the files yourself as below.\n\n### Without the local deploy operations\n\n1. Get upload credentials: `hosting_files_generate-upload-url` (`username`, `domain`); Agency: `agency-hosting_files_generate-upload-url` (`website_uid`). Both return `url`, `auth_key` and `rest_auth_key`, which authenticate the upload instead of the API token.\n2. Upload each file with TUS, where `DEST` is its path in the website's storage:\n\n```bash\nSIZE=$(wc -c < \"$FILE\" | tr -d ' ')\ncurl -sS -X POST \"$URL/$DEST?override=true\" -H \"X-Auth: $AUTH_KEY\" -H \"X-Auth-Rest: $REST_AUTH_KEY\" -H \"Tus-Resumable: 1.0.0\" -H \"Upload-Length: $SIZE\" -H \"Upload-Offset: 0\"\ncurl -sS -X PATCH \"$URL/$DEST?override=true\" -H \"X-Auth: $AUTH_KEY\" -H \"X-Auth-Rest: $REST_AUTH_KEY\" -H \"Tus-Resumable: 1.0.0\" -H \"Content-Type: application/offset+octet-stream\" -H \"Upload-Offset: 0\" --data-binary \"@$FILE\"\n```\n\n   The first call returns `201`, the second `204` with an `Upload-Offset` header equal to the file size. `override=true` makes a retry safe.\n3. Deploy from the uploaded files (`RANDOM8` is any fresh 8-character string, e.g. `$(LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'a-z0-9' < /dev/urandom | head -c 8)`):\n\n| Project | `DEST` | Then |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Static or PHP | `site.zip` | `hosting_websites_deploy-static-site-archive` with `archive_path: \"site.zip\"` |\n| Node.js | `app.zip` | `hosting_nodejs_build-settings-from-archive` with `archive_path: \"app.zip\"`, then `hosting_nodejs_start-build` with those settings, `source_type: \"archive\"` and `source_options.archive_path: \"app.zip\"` |\n| WordPress plugin | every file, as `wp-content/plugins/SLUG-RANDOM8/<path in the plugin>` | `wordpress_plugins_deploy` with `slug` and `plugin_path: \"SLUG-RANDOM8\"` |\n| WordPress theme | every file, as `wp-content/themes/SLUG-RANDOM8/<path in the theme>` | `wordpress_themes_deploy` with `slug`, `theme_path: \"SLUG-RANDOM8\"` and optional `is_activated` |\n| Agency, extracted as-is | `.h5g/site.zip` | `agency-hosting_files_import-website-from-archive` with `archive_name: \"site.zip\"` |\n| Agency `node-static` | `.h5g/RANDOM8/app.zip` | `agency-hosting_websites_build-nodejs-assets` with `archive_path: \".h5g/RANDOM8\"` — the directory, not the file |\n\n## 3. Node.js builds\n\n`hosting_deploy-js-application` uploads the archive to the document root, detects settings from `package.json` and starts a build. Track it with `hosting_nodejs_list-builds` and `hosting_nodejs_build` (by `uuid`), polling every 10–20 s — builds take minutes.\n\n- Failed build: `hosting_nodejs_analyse-failed-build` once per build (5 calls a minute), then `hosting_nodejs_build-logs` if the analysis is empty.\n- Wrong detection (framework, `output_directory`, or a missing `entry_file` for express, fastify, nest, nuxt and hono): run `hosting_nodejs_start-build` with explicit values, `source_type: \"archive\"` and `source_options.archive_path` set to the archive's file name in the document root (check it is there with `hosting_files_list-website-and-directories`). Store the same values with `hosting_nodejs_update-build-settings`.\n- To review detected settings before any build: upload the archive with `hosting_files_generate-upload-url` (the TUS steps are in its description), then `hosting_nodejs_build-settings-from-archive`.\n\n## 4. Auto-deploy from Git\n\n1. `hosting_git_list-installations`. With no `active` installation (check `status: \"pending\"` and `\"suspended\"` too), the user connects GitHub or GitLab once in hPanel under Websites → Manage → Advanced → Git; there is no API for that step.\n2. `hosting_git_list-installation-repositories` with the installation `uuid` gives `owner`, `name` and `default_branch` (10 calls a minute).\n3. `hosting_git_update-auto-deployment-settings` with `installation_uuid`, `owner`, `repository`, `branch` and optional `directory`.\n   - PHP and static sites deploy the branch immediately and again on every push.\n   - Node.js sites clone nothing on save: start the first build with `hosting_nodejs_start-build`, `source_type: \"git\"` and the same `source_options`. Later pushes build with the stored settings, so keep `hosting_nodejs_update-build-settings` correct.\n4. Confirm with `hosting_git_auto-deployment-settings`.\n\nAgency Plan sites have no Git operations; deploy archives.\n\n## 5. Environment variables (Node.js)\n\n`hosting_nodejs_replace-environment-variables` replaces the whole set — anything not sent is deleted.\n\n1. `hosting_nodejs_list-environment-variables` for the current keys. Values come back as `********`; never send those back.\n2. Build the full set: every current key plus the new ones, with real values from the project's `.env` or the user. When the real value of an existing key is unknown, ask — do not drop it.\n3. Send it once; the app restarts. Values baked in at build time (Next.js `NEXT_PUBLIC_*`, Vite `VITE_*`) need a new `hosting_nodejs_start-build`.\n\nKeys use uppercase letters, digits and underscores. Never commit `.env` files or repeat secret values back to the user.\n\n## 6. Database\n\n- **Node.js:** `hosting_databases_setup-website` creates a MySQL database and writes `DB_HOST`, `DB_PORT`, `DB_NAME`, `DB_USER`, `DB_PASSWORD` and `DATABASE_URL` into the environment, then restarts the app. The password is generated and never returned. It fails with 422 when any of those keys exists — remove them first with the step 5 replace.\n- **PHP:** `hosting_databases_create` with `name`, `user`, a strong generated `password` and `website_domain`; read the prefixed full name back from `hosting_databases_list`. The app reads credentials from a config file on the server that stays out of Git, and connects to `localhost` or `127.0.0.1`.\n- **Agency:** `agency-hosting_databases_create-website`; the app connects to `localhost`.\n- The `srvNNNN.hstgr.io` host from `hosting_databases_list` is only for connections from outside Hostinger — never put it in the deployed app.\n\n## 7. Verify and record\n\n```bash\ncurl -s -o /dev/null -w \"%{http_code}\\n\" https://DOMAIN/\ncurl -s https://DOMAIN/ | grep -o \"TEXT THE PROJECT RENDERS\"\n```\n\nA `200` alone can be a placeholder page; match real copy. A new site may serve a default page briefly — clear it with `hosting_cache_clear-website` and retry before calling the deploy failed.\n\nWrite `.hostinger/site.json` in the project so later runs reuse the target: `{ \"domain\", \"username\" or \"website_uid\", \"type\": \"static\" | \"nodejs\" | \"php\" }`, keeping any fields already there.\n"
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