Hexo provides a fast and easy deployment strategy. You only need one single command to deploy your site to your servers.

$ hexo deploy

Before your first deployment, you will have to modify some settings in _config.yml. A valid deployment setting must have a type field. For example:

deploy:
  type: git

You can use multiple deployers. Hexo will execute each deployer in order.

deploy:
- type: git
  repo:
- type: heroku
  repo:

Git

1. Install hexo-deployer-git.

$ npm install hexo-deployer-git --save

2. Edit _config.yml (with example values shown below as comments):

deploy:
  type: git
  repo: <repository url> #https://bitbucket.org/JohnSmith/johnsmith.bitbucket.io
  branch: [branch] #published
  message: [message] #leave this blank

3. Upload your site: ./node_modules/.bin/hexo clean && ./node_modules/.bin/hexo deploy (or hexo clean && hexo deploy if you installed Hexo globally).
4. On Github/BitBucket/Gitlab go to your repository settings and change your main branch from master to published (or whatever you called it in your _config.yml). Now your site will show as your account’s homepage.

How does it work exactly?

Your repository will have a master branch when you first made it. Keep working on this branch to create your site. When you deploy Hexo will create, or update, a new branch on the remote site (called published in the config above). Deployment won’t create a new branch locally, nor will it mess with your existing source code in the master branch locally or on the remote. You still need to keep pushing commits to the master branch manually to the remote server to keep your site backed up. In addition, if you are using a CNAME file to customize your Github Pages domain name, you need to put the CNAME file under source_dir so that Hexo can push it to the published branch.

Heroku

Install hexo-deployer-heroku.

$ npm install hexo-deployer-heroku --save

Edit settings.

deploy:
  type: heroku
  repo: <repository url>
  message: [message]

Netlify

Netlify provides continuous deployment (Git-triggered builds), an intelligent global CDN, full DNS (including custom domains), automated HTTPS, asset acceleration, and a lot more. It is a unified platform that automates your code to create high-performance, easily maintainable sites and web apps.

There are two different ways to deploy your sites on Netlify. The most common way is to use the web UI. Go to the create a new site page, select your project repo from GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket, and follow the prompts.

Alternatively, you can use Netlify’s Node based CLI tool to manage and deploy sites on Netlify without leaving your terminal.

You can also add a Deploy to Netlify Button in your README.file to allow others to create a copy of your repository and be deployed to Netlify via one click.

Rsync

Install hexo-deployer-rsync.

$ npm install hexo-deployer-rsync --save

Edit settings.

deploy:
  type: rsync
  host: <host>
  user: <user>
  root: <root>
  port: [port]
  delete: [true|false]
  verbose: [true|false]
  ignore_errors: [true|false]

OpenShift

Install hexo-deployer-openshift.

$ npm install hexo-deployer-openshift --save

Edit settings.

deploy:
  type: openshift
  repo: <repository url>
  message: [message]

FTPSync

Install hexo-deployer-ftpsync.

$ npm install hexo-deployer-ftpsync --save

Edit settings.

deploy:
  type: ftpsync
  host: <host>
  user: <user>
  pass: <password>
  remote: [remote]
  port: [port]
  ignore: [ignore]
  connections: [connections]
  verbose: [true|false]

SFTP

Install hexo-deployer-sftp. Deploys the site via SFTP, allowing for passwordless connections using ssh-agent.

$ npm install hexo-deployer-sftp --save

Edit settings.

deploy:
  type: sftp
  host: <host>
  user: <user>
  pass: <password>
  remotePath: [remote path]
  port: [port]
  privateKey: [path/to/privateKey]
  passphrase: [passphrase]
  agent: [path/to/agent/socket]

ZEIT Now

ZEIT Now is a cloud platform for websites and serverless APIs, that you can use to deploy your Hexo site to your personal domain (or a free .now.sh suffixed URL) with just a single command.

1. Install Now CLI:

$ npm i -g now

2. Add a build script to your package.json file:

{
  "scripts": {
    "build": "hexo generate"
  }
}

3. Deploy with a single command at the root of the project directory:

now

Alternatively, you can click the deploy button below to create a new project:

Other Methods

All generated files are saved in the public folder. You can copy them to wherever you like.