Hudson Continuous Integration. Copy contents of a folder to another folder (website)

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Hudson Continuous Integration. Copy contents of a folder to another folder (website)

Im trying out the Hudson Continuous Integration. After the build is executed i want to copy the content of the ReleaseBuild to another website on the server.

This should be possible i guess but i cant seem figure it out.

I know this can be done in nAnt and msbuild but i need to make Hudson do it, eg plugin or something.

Anyone?

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Hudson doesn't have a built in copy to some random location task so you have the following options

Add another nant/msbuild step that does the deploy
Install the Post Build Plugin and call a .cmd file to do your deploy
Use the Copy Archiver Plugin to do the copy - more specific than the post build plugin. (Thanks @nos)

The extra task in your nant file is probably the best option as nant can control IIS and do the right thing rather than just copying the files into a folder.

Robert Christie 2010-02-09 20:52:56

i had the feeling this was the case :)Strange no one made a plugin for this...

hippie 2010-02-09 20:56:06

Not entirely true, hudson has the CopyArchiver task, which lets you copy artifacts to any random filesystem destination.

nos 2010-02-09 20:56:16

@nos - My point referred to a built in process - Thanks for the suggestion of Copy Archiver - I've added it to the options - it's clearly better than the Post build plugin for this task but I still think a nant/msbuild task is the preferred way to go. Thoughts?

Robert Christie 2010-02-09 21:02:45

If you're only copying within the same server, there's no need for a plugin as it's so trivial. Otherwise there are plugins as mentioned, including the SCP Publisher plugin.

Christopher 2010-02-09 21:11:34

@nos - i have looked at CopyArchiver but i can only copy to a random dest, and since im want to deploy a website (asp.net) i need to set the location of the msbuild folder and this cant be done as far as i can see.Am i wrong here?

hippie 2010-02-09 21:11:37

@Christopher - Thats what i want. Could you explain what you mean?

hippie 2010-02-09 21:14:27

Im going with the nAts, thanks for the help.

hippie 2010-02-09 22:54:02

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