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Connect PRIVATE GITHUB repository to CPANEL hosting account

27/08/2023

Cpanel

Go to terminal of your cpanel account and type the command below to generate ecdsa key pair

ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -b 251 -c "EMAIL_ADDRESS"

"EMAIL_ADDRESS" is the email that you use for your github account.
In your cpanel terminal go to .ssh/ folder

cd .ssh/

You can read your PublicKey, that has to be added to your github repo

cat id_ecdsa.pub

You can see your public key, copy that public key and go to your github private repo

Github

Go to Settings of your private github repo.
Under Security on the side nav, click on Deploy keys.
Add Title and paste that public key in Key.

Allow write access depends whether you like to push changes to your github repo from your hosting.

creatiko commented Dec 3, 2025

May be a typo, cPanel would not let me use 251 as length it had to be 256

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