deployment

Deploying python executables- PyInstaller, cx-freeze, etc.

I'm looking to find a way to bundle a python app into stand-alone executables so my windows and mac using friends can use it without installing ugly dependencies. Looking online I've found a few utilities to help do this, including py2exe for windows and py2app for mac, as well as PyInstaller, cx-freeze, and bbfreeze. What have ya'll use...

How to specify a jdbc.url in the persistence.xml relative to the application folder?

Once I deploy my application with JPA the user chooses to install it somewhere. Then however the property set as: <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:derby:db;create=true"/> gets interpreted into the following exception: couldn't create database in \db. Throughout development it used to be the relative path to the ...

Socket permissions when running Django with FastCGI

I am running Django fcgi with standard line: exec setuidgid $USERID $VENVBIN/python $WEBAPP/manage.py runfcgi daemonize=false socket=$FCGISOCKET Problem is that only group is shared between fastcgi process and webserver, not user - however group do not have write permissions by default (hotfix is running chmod g+w manually). How to f...

PDO maturity in PHP 5.2.13

How mature is PDO for PHP 5.2.13 for a serious project? (By serious I mean a script that is going to be sold and deployed in different platforms and environments. Something not serious would be for testing or developing, in this case) Currently, most host companies are running PHP 5.2.13 and adoption for 5.3.x seems too far away... S...

Developing an automated software deployment program through Samba or Active Directory

I'm a web developer that needs to build a piece of software for my local office of about 20-30 Windows computers. It needs to automatically and silently run software updates and deployments on all computers. The Windows computers run on a local network. I'm not sure where to start putting my hands on with something like this... I'm an...

How to get deployment directory path in JSF application?

Is it possible to find out deployment path from JSF application? One more question (if the answer for the former question is true): is it legitimate to store some uploaded files there? ...

Serving secure Django pages with HTTPS

What is the proper deployment configuration for a Django application that needs some pages served with HTTPS and others with HTTP? I want to use HTTPS for the pages that involve registration and inputting passwords. I want to use HTTP for all other pages. ...

No-touch deployment and information about update

Greetings, We have an application written in .net 3.5 that uses wcf and also wpf for the purpose of presentation. We have No-touch deployment implemented so users just click on internet shortcut and application starts immediately. Sometimes, when we update application, it takes about 30minutes to update client applications, server and ...

Continuous Integration with RIA Servies

Hi, I've got some issues with a project I'm trying to set up in TeamCity. This project consists of 3 class libraries (one of which is a silverlight RIA library), a Web Application and a silverlight project. The issue I have is that, as we're using RIA services, my usual approach to silverlight builds (i.e. building the silverlight app...

Apache Derby Embedded Mode Deployment

I have a Java app that has an embedded Derby database (no hibernate though). The app is using the following properties: datasource.driverClassName = org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver datasource.url = jdbc:derby:C:/derby/mydb; datasource.username = 1234 datasource.password = 1234 Everything is working fine and great. Now I need to p...

Best way to perform online re-indexing of tables for Zend_Search_Lucene-powered search

Hi, I'm using Zend_Search_Lucene for full-text search of records in several different tables in my application. I have just implemented this functionality, and currently the index is built upon first use of the search functionality after application deployment. This is obviously not what I would like in production. I'm looking for an e...

Detect Development to Production Server Path Issues

We have a development server which we use while developing LAMP applications. We also have a production server where our websites are deployed. Occasionally, when deploying websites on the production server, we forgot to update certain paths. Occasionally we find that a production website is still referencing images, scripts and styles...

Preferred way to set up a JSF start page ?

Hi, I'm using JSF 2.0 to build a website. Eclipse generated the following web.xml file ... <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> ... So to view my application i have to visit "localhost/myApp/faces/index.xhtml". I would prefer to view it directl...

Visual Studio 2010: Is there a way to deploy a single database object that retains the object in normal builds?

Developers have expressed a desire to deploy a single database object from a Sql Server 2008 project, such as a stored procedure, without having to use the build/deploy or schema comparison functions. To enable this, developers have created their database object scripts including 'if exists.. drop' checks at the top of the script and ...

Code & data tracking / deployment

For a long time now, we've held our data within the project's repository. We just held everything under data/sql, and each table had its own create_tablename.sql and data_tablename.sql files. We have now just deployed our 2nd project onto Scalr and we've realised it's a bit messy. The way we deploy: We have a "packageup" collection of...

Does ASP.NET configuration tool Available on real Servers

Hi all I started learning asp.net but i just want to engage in real world experience I need to know what are the deficiencies i'll face when deploying my projects to a real server Can i find the ASP.NET configuration tool ? what will be available and what will be NOT available ? Also is there any differences between Windows server...

Strategies for java webapp configuration

Part of my webapp involves uploading image files. On the production server, the files will need to be written to /somepath_on_production_server/images. For local development, I want to write the files to /some_different_path/images. What's the best way to handle these configuration differences? One important requirement is this: I don'...

Are there any DLL files that an application written in Nemerle needs to include?

When I deploy an application written in Nemerle, are there any DLL files specific for Nemerle that needs to be installed? If there are such DLL files, which are they? ...

Dependency issues in deploying using Java Webstart

I am working on a project in Java which has a directory structure something like this: MainFolder / | \ Folder1 Folder2 Folder3... | Program.jar|Run.sh In Folder1 I have main jar file along with the shell script to run the program. In Folder2 I'm having configuration files in xml which may later be modified ...

Deploying Java application compiled with Netbeans - Can't find 3rd party class

Hi, I've built my application in Netbeans 6.8. The application contains various references to third party products (such as Microsoft database driver for SQL Server and JIDE). When compiled it produces a dist folder that I thought you could simply xcopy to a location and it would work. When I run my application, as soon as it enc...