deployment

Deploying a Mercurial Repository to Production - Security Concerns and Tips

In my research, I found some concern around deploying an online PHP application while leaving its ".hg" folder or ".svn" folders in place on the production server. Unfortunately, I was not able to find a clear explanation as to why this is a concern. I would like to better understand this security risk. It seems to me that you don't...

Can the .Net 4 Client Profile be deployed via ClickOnce to non administrators?

I have deployed Windows forms applications regularly via ClickOnce that are installed by users that are not local administrators on their machines. Is there a way to also deliver the .Net 4 Client Profile the same way? From what I have read, I am guessing the answer is no. But I'm also hoping there may be a clever alternative. ...

Asp.net Mvc 2 + SQL Server Database + Setup Project / Installer

Hey everyone, there's one thing bugging me for quite some time now. How can I create a setup project (resulting in a msi package) for my Asp.Net Mvc 2 Project? The installer / msi should create a website in iis7, a database in SQL Server 2008 and put the connection string(s) into the web.config. What is the best way to achieve this? Does...

heroku rake db:migrate aborting....

heroku rake db:migrate rake aborted! no such file to load -- acts_as_ferret (See full trace by running task with --trace) (in /disk1/home/slugs/310513_b4b7e61_4c01/mnt) how do I fix this? ...

ASP.NET MVC: Should I include DataContext files (.dbml and .dbml.layout) in the deployment package?

Hello, Should I include DataContext files (.dbml and .dbml.layout) in the deployment package? Thanks for helping ...

How to set site in maintenance mode trough shell-script?

For my next project I will use automatic deployments with git. I can run a shellscript before and after deployment. Is it possible to set "maintenance" automatically with shell? In my .htaccess then I would check if a server variable is set to deployment or not to do the rewrite to maintenance? Is this possible and how should I handle ...

Webpart broken after solution redeploy

I have deployed and then redeployed a .wsp on a Sharepoint 2010 server (the solution was developed on another 2010 server). The solution contains 2 web parts. After retracting and removing the old solution, I added and deployed the same solution again, with no errors. Afterwards, I deactivated and reactivated the feature installed thr...

ASP.NET MVC 2. Javascript Error when deployed to IIS7.

Hello guys and girls Been working on a ASP.NET MVC 2 solution for some time now and today I decided to test in in the IIS7 so I could put in on a company server for my colleagues to play with. However I got quite a surprise when I hosted it. I started to get Javascript errors in code that worked while running it locally in my VS2010. ...

WPF custom control looking weird on deployment

I use a custom numericUpDown control in my WPF application which works fine in my local development environment. However when i deploy my application the control looks strange, to be more specific, all the elements within the control seem to be in place but without the styles. What could be the reason for this? ...

Deploying an exploded WAR inside a compressed EAR == not possible?

At the moment I am trying to deploy an exploded war directory in a compressed ear file on a jboss-4.2.3.GA server. But JBoss complains that it can't find the web-app.war file (Failed to find module file: web-app.war). However if I deploy the same ear file exploded, too, the deployment works without any problems. So my question is: Is it...

Minimize html, doubts and questions.

Hi all. Minimizing html is the only section on Google's Page Speed where there is still room for improvement. My site is all dynamic and the HTML is already Deflated so there is no reason to put any more pressure on the server (I don't want to minimize pages real time before sending). What I could do was to minimize the template fil...

Publisher is Unverified Message in Windows Vista...

I wrote a small .NET app that I've been running locally on my Windows 7 box/Windows 7 laptop. It runs great, no problems at all. I've given the same app to a friend of mine; he has the .Net framework installed but when he goes to run the .exe he gets a warning saying something about the publisher being unverified. He can either cancel...

Reporting Services - deployment and global/shared configuration between reports

Is it possible to add global variables that are shared among reports in SQL Server Reporting Services? I know it's possible to add variables for a report but I want the same variables to be used from many different reports. Also, is it possible to have different configurations for different servers so that when reports are deployed they...

Deploying a Spring application in a Tomcat server instance

Hello! I am a newbie and I want to deploy a Spring project which I get via SVN to my Tomcat application server. I did a checkout in Eclipse (Subclipse) and so the project is located in my workspace. I downloaded the 6.0.29 Tomcat server and extracted it to a directory. Then I create a new Tomcat server in the Server tab of Eclipse. I c...

Problem: we need to install SQL 2008 R2 Express with Management tools on about 24 physical machines of various OS flavors.

Problem: we need to install SQL 2008 R2 Express with Management tools on about 24 physical machines of various OS flavors. ...

TFS 2010: Copy _PublishedWebsites to test server

I've seen similar questions and answers but found them not really what I want. I have a large solution with several web projects in it. All the web projects share some common code so they are all part of the same solution (there is a common project that is referenced by all of them). I've been running on Team Foundation Server 2008 an...

Deploying RoR app to Heroku with Sqlite3 fails

I'm trying to deploy my first app to Heroku. I'm using Sqlite as the database. As far as I know Heroku doesn't use Sqlite - it switches to Postgres in the backend. When I'm deploying I get the following error: /usr/ruby1.8.7/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:64:in `require': no such file to load -- sq...

Google App Engine Deployment Errors

We deployed an app using Google App Engine before. We are trying to redeploy the app in Eclipse. We are getting the following errors: The App Engine SDK '\XXXX\war' on the project's build path is not valid Google App Engine Problem The output directory for the project should be set to /XXXX/war/WEB-INF/classes Unknown Goo...

ASP.NET 4.0 Deployment package include

The build Deployment package feature of Visual Studio 2010 doesn't copy the App_GlobalResources directory from my ASP.NET 4.0 WebForms application. I know I can use for example "ExcludeFoldersFromDeployment" to exclude folders from the deployment, but how can I include this folder with MSBUILD? ...

What are the best options for hosting a Grails application?

I'm looking for the best hosting option for a Grails application, my requirements are: Low number of requests and storage (to start with likely only hundreds of requests per day) Ease of deployment and configuration (I want to concentrate on development and not setup and admin tasks) Low cost I've investigated the following: Amazon...