I am currently working on a web application that uses PHP and MySQL, but I do not have shell access to the server (working on that problem already...). Currently, I have source control with subversion on my local computer and I have a database on the local computer that I make all changes to. Then, once I've tested all the updates on m...
I've used straight Mongrel, I've used Mongrel clusters behind Apache, I've looked at Thin, and I'm becoming very intrigued by Passenger. I've looked at Nginx, too. I've looked at MRI, Ruby Enterprise Edition, Rubinius, and JRuby. There are a lot of options, each claiming to be the new holy grail. What is the best option out there for a ...
I'm currently working on an asp.net-mvc content management system. It would be incredibly useful to be able to deploy nested applications e.g. /shop to have a separate app inside. Or even another instance of the cms. I've found some information around talking about limiting the inheritance of the web.config but I've no idea how this map...
In building an ASP.NET 3.5 WAP, I'm always frustrated by the feeling that no matter how I "isolate" or "encapsulate" bits of logic or UI I'm still going to bring down the whole site any time I need to update a single line of code. I may be misunderstanding how ASP.NET handles changes in the "bin" directory, but given the number of "why i...
I'm building a simple ASP.NET web application in VS 2008 with a SQL 2005 database. I'm working on Vista and I'd prefer not to install IIS (I'd rather just us Cassini for local testing). Here's what I've tried: FrontPage Server Extensions. I installed these on my server, but they broke my default web site and I still couldn't publish fr...
Hi all, I'm trying to make a setup program for a asp.net web site. I need to make sure the target machine has sqlxml installed. I must verify the target machine has the software installed, and if not, launch a .msi file either before or after the main installation. I'm a complete newbie with setup projects so maybe this is obvious bu...
I have a .Net program that I want to install on a terminal server. In the past I've created installer projects and generated an MSI. However, terminal servers require all users be bumped off before running an MSI and I want to avoid that. Is there a way to do an install without a MSI? Sometimes for some user accounts I can simply cop...
My ASP.NET application needs a number of supporting services to run periodically in the background. For example: I need to query the database (or cache) every 1-5 minutes, identify overdue work items and notify users by email I need to generate nightly reports that are then emailed to subscribers Plus other system/non-user admin tasks ...
Hi, I know that you can install your Windows Service via the VS deployment system which I've done. But how do you deploy updates after that? Each time I deploy a new version, it says that the service already exists and exits. I tried to add a little DOS CMD file with the following: net stop [ServiceName] sc delete [ServiceName] It wo...
When I use my browser to test my web service, it opens at http://localhost:4832/ -- where can I find its files physically on my drive? Update I do not want to know where the files of my VS.NET solution are located but where I should put the files of the web service... the .asmx, .dll and other files that I will install for the real web...
We have built a custom socket server in ruby and packaged it as a gem. Since this is an internal project we can not simply publish it to RubyForge or GitHub. I tried to setup our own gem server but gem would not authenticate over https. Our other deployment is all for standard rails applications that use capistrano and svn for deployme...
I am trying to coordinate the move of a site from its current server to a new one. My original plan was to migrate the data to the new machine, which is already in place and the migration scripts tested successfully. I was planning to configure the original machine to proxy all requests to the new one, in order to ensure that anyone hitt...
Hi, Can we have the best practices for Production release when working with ERP system like Oracle Apps. What is the best way to automate the release ? I am thinking of a typical Development -Test - Production environment. Regards, Kedar Hukeri ...
Just started getting into jQuery and have an issue with a jQuery Post call working perfectly on my local dev box (VS 2008 built-in web server), but failing when I deploy to a windows 2003 server (IIS 6) box. The post works and the page being posted to process things correctly, but a response is never received by the calling Post functio...
I'm not very experienced with builds - this may be really easy! I have a simple application with a simple deployment project. I went to the directory where the release-compiled versions of the DLLs are, signed all of them (verisign), and then went to the deployment project, chose Build (not REbuild), and it recompiled all my assemblies...
OK, deploying ASP.NET MVC seems to be painful. I want to deploy my ASP.NET MVC application on Windows XP (IIS 5.1), but can't seem to find how to do it. When I type the application name into the web browser address bar I get a "website not available" message. There are workarounds for IIS 6.0, but what about IIS 5.1? ...
Hi there, I have created a windows installer for a windows forms app as an MSI. I have published this and put it in a zip file and sent it to the client. When they try to run the installer they get the message 'The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?’ Is there a setting or something i need to do...
Hi there, have downloaded Orca to edit an MSI file. I want to remove some banner text during the installation. I have managed to do this to the MSI and saved it with the MSI. However am having problems in saving a template and then applying that to subsequent installers. Have looked at the help file for Orca and am basically lost on how ...
I'm writing a java app using eclipse which references a few external jars and requires some config files to be user accessable. What is the best way to package it up for deployment? My understanding is that you cant put Jars inside another jar file, is this correct? Can I keep my config files out of the jars and still reference them in...
We have to validate large amounts of resource files for naming conventions and format integrity, etc. Is there a framework/tool available to make this easier? Build tools like Ant/Phing spring to mind but I wonder if there's something more focused to this kind of testing. Ideally it would cache results based on modification-time and g...