deployment

Ad Hoc Deployment Issue: putpkt: write failed: Broken pipe.

I have a beta version of my app developed, and I'm looking to put it on a few friend's iPhones for testing purposes. I've gone through the Ad Hoc deployment steps at the Developer Portal, and I've also followed the instructions here: http://www.talentgrouplabs.com/blog/archive/2008/11/10/iphone-sdk-mobile-provisioning-0xe800003a-0xe8000...

Distributing applications where the configuration settings are encrypted using Entrerprise library

Hi All, I have a thought about this but could not come with a good solution. I have a windows application. I use enterprise library (3.1) Data Access Application Block. Now I use the DataProtectionConfigurationProvider to encrypt the connection strings. This application has to be deployed across multiple machines. I don't want the end...

What role does the file "iis.config" play in the running of a web application on IIS?

We've recently finished development of a web application that works as expected. When we handed it over to the ops team, they freaked out a little bit because we didn't supply the file "iis.config". What is this file? What does it do? Edit: It turns out its a proprietary file for our internal operations monitoring program or somet...

Rails requires RubyGems >= 0.9.4. Please install RubyGems

Having the same problems as this post, except I don't think the solution is the same unfortunately. I'm getting this error message: Rails requires RubyGems >= 0.9.4. Please install RubyGems when I run a script/runner job in Cron, but it works perfectly fine when I run it in a terminal on the same server. The rails server also runs f...

Synchronizing External Configuration Between IIS Servers in a Web Farm

I have been struggling with the best way to make sure that the certain XML configuration files stay synchronized between multiple servers in a Web Farm. I am not necessarily concerned about the Web.Config, as much as I am concerned about some of the other configuration files that are present in the application. For example, we store ca...

Web application monitoring best practices

We are finishing up our web application and planning for deployment. Very important aspect of deployment to production is monitoring the health of the system. Having a small team of developers/support makes it very critical for us to get the early notifications of potential problems and resolve them before they have impact on users. Usi...

Nant Zip task zips 0 files when basedir is a variable?

I have the following Nant Script snippet. <zip zipfile="${devEnvironment}..\dev-${datetime::get-year(datetime::now())}${datetime::get-month(datetime::now())}${datetime::get-day(datetime::now())}.zip"> <fileset basedir="${devEnvironment}"> <include name="**/*"/> </fileset> </zip> The devEnvironment property is set to a ...

Is it ok to use different different OSes for production/development servers with Rails?

Say, I love Debian+mod_rails and run it on my laptop which is my development platform. Yet, I am deploying to a production server running Ubuntu+mod_rails. Is it better in a long run if I install Ubuntu on my laptop or are the problems with deployment so miniscule I can go with whatever the hell I like on dev. machine? Thanks. ...

Use subversion for asp.net deployment - Causes appdomain recycle

I am experimenting with using subversion to deploy updates to my ASP.Net application, one issue that I am facing is that whenever the working copy(containing the build) is updated the ".svn" folder inside of bin gets updated and this causes the ASP.Net appdomain to recycle. I don't want this to happen unless something in bin has actually...

How can I easily deploy a certificate with a host application ?

Hi, My use case is very simple : I have a GUI application, and inside this application I host a service however clients of this services must be able to authenticate with UserName safely (The only thing I want is to encrypt messages to be sure that nobody can sniff to retrieve password of clients, I don't care about more security). So,...

What is needed on the client machine to deploy .NET software?

I am deploying the .Net windows application to client system. Do client need .Net software in his system? ...

How to deploy Django with Spawning

There's no much documentation on how to deploy a Django project with Spawning and yet people are recommending it over apache/mod_wsgi. In another similar question, other SO user suggested me to open a new question specific to Spawning, so hopefully others can share their experiences too. ...

windows live id web authentication sdk giving Java App server error

I'm making a website in c# .NET and using the windows live id web authentication sdk for my logins. I'm trying to deploy the site using server 2003 and IIS 6.0, but I'm getting the following error, when redirecting from the login page to webauth-handler: "HTTP Status 405 - HTTP method POST is not supported by this URL type Status repor...

Database deployment best practices

Mostly we change existing database tables, stored procedures, functions or parameters in tables for software upgrades/bugfixes. And when it's time to deploy our changes to another environment like production or preproduction, some parts of our db changes are forgotten. In our company, some developers use a database difference analysis a...

C# Application over a Network

I have run into a few cases where i have been asked to deploy an application (C#, .Net 2.0) to a server and users need to test the application over the network. I have found the following that works with out any hitches other than a warning telling you "hey your running this over a network are you sure you want to do this?": %systemroot...

Using unit tests as a "functionality contract"

Unit tests are often deployed with software releases to validate the install - i.e. do the install, run the tests and if they pass then the install is good. I'm about to embark on a project that will involve delivering prototype software library releases to customers. The unit tests will be delivered as part of each release and in addit...

Setup Wizard

I am using the Setup Wizard to package my windows form app however when installing I get prompted to install the .NET 3.5 framework even though my app is built on 2.0 and the 3.5 framework is not ticked in the prereqs section of the setup project. Why is it asking for .NET 3.5? ...

Publishing my ASP.NET site ruins the Subversion files

I've been trying to use SVN to deploy my asp.net site to production. My workflow is: Setup: Publish Site to FolderX, Import FolderX to SVN, Update web server production folder with the repository for FolderX. Everyday: Publish updated site to FolderX, Commit Changes, Update remote server with changes. That's the theory, but when I pub...

Install ClickOnce without Running

When you install a ClickOnce application, the program runs after the install. Is it possible to install without running? I know I can use a setup and deployment project and create an installer, but I'd prefer to use ClickOnce. ...

Run c# 3 app without .Net Framework installed????

This may seem like a dumb question, but can an app build with c# 3 (.Net Framework 3.5) be built and deployed to a machine that does not have the 3.5 framework installed? i.e. does bin deployment work for System.Core and other 3.5 dlls? I would really like to build my app using lambdas, linq, Func etc. but my client is not allowed to in...