Jon Gallant

How to Install git-ftp on Windows

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I use git-ftp to deploy my hexo blog from a git repo to an FTP site. Getting it setup on Windows was non-trivial. Here’s how I got it working.

1. Install Chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/install

2. Install git

Terminal window
choco install git


```text


3\. Install cygwin


```bash


choco install cygwin


```text


![000023](/images/install-git-ftp-windows/000023.png)


> Run this twice if it fails the first time. Here’s how it failed for me.


![000024](/images/install-git-ftp-windows/000024.png)


```bash


ERROR: Running ["C:\Users\jong\AppData\Local\Temp\Cygwin\2.6.1\setup-x86_64.exe" --quiet-mode --site http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ --packages default --root C:\tools\cygwin --local-package-dir C:\tools\cygwin --no-desktop] was not successful. Exit code was '1'. See log for possible error messages.
Environment Vars (like PATH) have changed. Close/reopen your shell to
 see the changes (or in powershell/cmd.exe just type `refreshenv`).
The install of cygwin was NOT successful.
Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\Cygwin\tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1'.
 See log for details.


Chocolatey installed 1/2 packages. 1 packages failed.
 See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).


Failures


- cygwin (exited 1) - Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\Cygwin\tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1'.


 See log for details.


```python


> If you get this error: “Please ensure you have Cygwin installed” then follow the steps [here](https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey-coreteampackages/issues/176#issuecomment-212939458)


![000012](/images/install-git-ftp-windows/000012.png)


> If you can’t get cygwin to install, then just install it directly from the cygwin website here: [https://cygwin.com/install.html](https://cygwin.com/install.html)


4\. Install cyg-get


```bash


choco install cyg-get


```text


5\. Install cyg-get curl package


```bash


cyg-get curl


```text


6\. Open Cygwin Terminal


7\. Get git-ftp


```bash


curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git-ftp/git-ftp/develop/git-ftp > /bin/git-ftp


```text


8\. Make git-ftp Executable


```bash


chmod +x /bin/git-ftp


```text


9\. Run git-ftp


```bash


git ftp


```python


You will see the following output.
![000026](/images/install-git-ftp-windows/000026.png)


10\. Add cygwin to Windows PATH Environment Variable


So you can execute cygwin command from a Windows Command Prompt, open up Environment variables and add this to your path.


```bash


C:\tools\cygwin\bin


```text


11\. Open a Windows Command Prompt and run git ftp


```bash


git ftp

Once again, you will see the output, but this time from Windows instead of the cygwin Terminal. 000028

See the git-ftp GitHub repo for usage instructions.

Jon

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