deployment

Emulate SSH sever for testing purposes

I have to write test for deployment script which uploads files through SSH, but I'd like to have it not depending on external servers configuration. This is how i see it: Create 2 SSH daemons without authenication on different ports of loopback interface. Run the deployment script on these two ports The only question is how to run th...

Persistence on an online click once application

Hi, Is there a way to persist an string from an online click once application. I saw something about isolated file storage as answers to other questions. But none of them specify if it works also for online apps (I really don't think so). I think that something like a cookie will work. Is there something like that available? The appli...

Storing Umbraco settings on the file system and packaging changes for deployment

Does anybody know of an easy way to store Umbraco settings (Document Types, Media Types etc) on the file system in order to manage that data within source control? Note: changes to settings made on the file system need to be easily integrated back into the CMS database. Also, does anybody know of a way to package up settings from a dev...

Is hosting a Netty Server inside Tomcat feasible/desirable?

We building a Netty/NIO based service, and I'm considering the deployment of this service to our production environment. Our standard way of deploying services is as WARs, to be deployed inside Tomcats. When I suggested the same approach here, I got shouts and complaints that "it shouldn't be done", because both Netty and Tomcat are ser...

Any way to have Java Web Start automatically install shortcuts?

We're deploying a Web Start app that I and the other developers know how to install the shortcuts for (Control Panel -> Java on Windows, /Applications/Utilities/Java Preferences on OS X), but we have no reason to believe that end users know how to do this (or even know that it can be done). Is there a way to either install the shortcuts...

How to have different file links to an Eclipse project (not importing it)?

Hi all, I noticed when I import a file, the file is copied to the work space, but can I just create a file link in a Eclipse project? So when I modify the files in Eclipse, the files in the linked location is modified. In this way, I can version control the files using SVN. And I don't need to copy the modified files back to its dedicate...

Two nested DLLs...

Dear all, We have a dll file; let's say X.DLL. We are now writing another DLL, let's say "A.DLL" that uses some (very few) of the functions of X.DLL. We have no access to source code of X.DLL. Also, we don't want to give our clients X.DLL along with A.DLL. Instead, we want to encapsulate X.DLL within A.DLL, so that distributing A.DLL ...

ASP.MVC2.0/EF4.0 site deployment/maintenance

Hello, My small team used asp.mvc 2.0/entity framework 4.0(model first approach)/Windows Server 2008r2/Sql Server 2008 r2 stack in out web site project. We've already complete developing process, and come to the web deployment stage. In this stage we are faced with the problem - ok we'll use vs2010 features for initial server/db deploy,...

Deploy war file with modifiable properties files

I am building a web service and am packaging it into a war file for deployment. Right now all of my config files (.properties and .xml) are being packaged into my .war file. This isn't going to work as some of these files will need to be modified for each individual installation. I know that some servlet containers will leave the .war...

Problem with <system.web.extensions> config group when upgrading to .NET 4.0

Hi Guys, So we've upgraded our site from 3.5 SP1 -> .NET 4. When we ran the site, we got an Internal Server Error (500), stating the following configuration group could not be read: <system.web.extensions> <scripting> <scriptResourceHandler enableCompression="true" enableCaching="true" /> <webServices>...

Absolute Path of Project's folder in Java.

Lots of confusion in this topic. Several Questions have been asked. Things still seem unclear. ClassLoader, Absolute File Paths etc etc Suppose I have a project directory structure as, MyProject-- --dist --lib --src --test I have a resource say "txtfile.txt" in "lib/txt" direct...

how to deploy a project on client's computer?

I have a built a .net application using visual studio. This application is coded in C# and uses SQLSERVER for database purposes(storage,retrieval and manipulation of data). Please tell me how to give this application to client? Do I have to install .net framework on client's computer..? Do I need to install complete sqlserver on client...

Deployment Suggestions

Hey guys, I'm wondering if anyone can provide any constructive feedback about the current deploy procedure we use where I work: We have three copies of the code in seperate Mercurial repositories: Dev, PP (Pre-Production) and Live. Changes are made on Dev, pushed to PP for User Acceptance Testing then pushed to Live once accepted. Bui...

Which reporting tool is for me

Hey peeps I have a system implemented by numerous clients, system is built in asp.net, C# and uses MSSQL2008 as a database. New requirements are reporting functionality, this has to be presented in the browser. I know of two solutions: Crystal Reporting Services However, somehow i think their are more option out there. I am look...

Suggestions for deploying openSSL dlls

I made a simple application that uses Indy and requires OpenSSL dlls. I am not going to write an installer for it, so I have 2 options: 1) deploy it by copying the application exe + libeay32.dll + ssleay32.dll in the same folder 2) put libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll in the exe resources and extract them to the applicationpath on progra...

SQL compact sdf file help with deployment

I am trying to deploy a simple windows forms application using the standard Publish option in Visual Studio. I am using a SQL server compact file (.sdf) as my database. When I deploy the app and install it on a test computer, I get this error: The Path is not valid. Please check the directory for the database. and then it shows me the ...

Git: application configuration and different environments

We use git for most of the web applications we build in our shop, and though the applications themselves use a variety of technologies (PHP, Rails, etc), we generally have a staging and production server for each site. Typically, these servers have different sets of database credentials as well as different environment-based configurati...

Django deployment tools

I'm looking for some tool (or set of tools) that could help me automate deploying Django projects with all required dependencies. I googled for some solutions but I am curious what are your favorite ones. ...

alter multiple mysql databases at once (SAAS database changes)

We are running a PHP (zend framework) app that creates a database per user (for security/backup/and others reasons). All these databases have exactly the same structure and that will always be the case. When we deploy new features we'll need to expand all databases with the new fields/tables. I've read about using dbdeploy for that, but...

Webistrano bash/sh problem!

I love Capistrano and finally i found GUI for using it! Webistrano! I installed the app that many other guys recommend it to me. Finally, its time to try... I flow the screencast ..etc.. and found in my production.log this error: 'sh: ruby command not found' I followed this blog post but naaaah!! same problem... This is what i tried...