I was looking for a decent continuous integration solution for my PHP projects for some time now, but always had the problem that most of the described solutions used SVN instead of Git as VCS system. Yesterday I found an article which describes the setup exactly as I needed it: phpUnderControl with Git on a Debian/Ubuntu system. Using the article, I managed to set up a working system quickly, which basically works as expected: CruiseControl checks the repository for modifications and starts the build process if there are any new commits. The build process includes generating API documentation (phpdocumentor), running static code analysis (php-codesniffer) and executing unit tests (phpunit). If the build succeeds, the results are published and can be accessed through a nice webinterface powered by phpUnderControl (see screenshot above which I stole from the phpUnderControl site).

However, the described setup has a few issues which bugged me:

1. CruiseControl runs from the shellscript as root, posts all output to the console and is not automatically started at boot time.
2. CruiseControl runs on port 8080, but I wanted to manage access to the webinterface through the apache which is already running on the box
3. There’s no authentication – everybody can access my CI server, see the build details and start new builds through the webinterface.

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