I have been following articles on deploying a rails app to a droplet and the deployment stops after running cap production deploy:initial on “01 Enter passphrase for key ’/home/deploy/.ssh/id_rsa’:”
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×Hi @marshallchikari,
It seems like you have added a SSH private key - /home/deploy/.ssh/id_rsa:” and it needs the passphrase you’ve used when creating it.
If you don’t know the passphrase, you won’t be able to use the SSH key and will need to generate a new key. If you are unware how to generate a new key, follow the bellow steps
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C your email address
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C example@exampleKey.com
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/example/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/example/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/example/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
34:87:67:ea:c2:49:ee:c2:81:d2:10:84:b1:3e:05:59 example@exampleKey.com
You’ll now have an SSH key which you can use.
Please note generating a new SSH key will mean your previous key will be removed!!
Regards,
KDSys
Additionally, can you confirm which tutorials did you follow so that I can check what the SSH key was used for and provide you with more information?
Regards,
KDSys
Still its not working I have tried again and again
Have you added the generated SSH key to your GitHub project?
If you have, do you now know your passphrase?
Lastly, are you still stuck on the same step or have you gotten passed it?
Regards,
KDSys
I’m using gitlab and yes I added the key and I passed it by repeating the same process only this time I didnt put a passphrase but I encounter other errors also the app could not be deployed its saying see the logs