sculpin aws deployment php

Auto deploy a Sculpin website for free

Sculpin is a fantastic PHP-based static site generator built on Symfony and Composer components. I wanted to set up automated deployment to production whenever changes are merged to the master branch—without any additional costs or infrastructure.

The solution: Travis CI with S3 deployment.

The Setup

Create a .travis.yml file in your repository:

language: php

php:
  - '7.0'

install:
  - composer install

script: vendor/sculpin/sculpin/bin/sculpin --env=prod generate

deploy:
  provider: s3
  access_key_id:
    secure: "FnJ--snip"
  secret_access_key:
    secure: "Bw4--snip"
  bucket: "rokka-io-site"
  region: "eu-central-1"
  skip_cleanup: true
  local_dir: output_prod
  on:
    branch: master

The encrypted keys are generated using the Travis CLI tool to keep your AWS credentials secure.

Benefits

  • Zero cost for open source projects on Travis CI
  • Simplified workflow — just push to master and the site deploys automatically
  • Automatic notifications if builds fail, preventing broken sites from going live
  • No additional infrastructure to maintain

This setup has been running reliably for our sites, making deployments completely hands-off.