deployment

Statistic for requests in deployed VPS servers

I was thinking about different scalability features, and suddenly understand that I don't really know how much can handle one server (VPS). The question for them who have loaded projects. Imagine server with: 1 Gb Ram 1 Xeon CPU CentOS LAMP with FastCGI PostgreSQL on the same machine And we need to calculate count of request, so I d...

How to redistribute Crystal Reports for VS2005 to Vista?

I have a WinForms app built using Visual Studio 2005, including the crystal reports that comes with VS2005 to run and view reports. My installer uses the merge module CrystalDecisionsRedist2005_x86 to install Crystal. This all works well until I try installing on Vista, when I get errors registering the Crystal dlls. It seems this is a w...

ASP.NET MVC: deployment issue

Hi, I created an ASP.NET MVC 1.0 application that works fine on my machine (running in vs 2008 web server). However, when I deploy it to my webhost (running in medium trust), I get the following exception on the first hit: could not find file or dependency System, Version 1.0.9.0. Looking at the stack trace, I saw target invocation exce...

SFTP task for msbuild?

Hi, Does anyone know of an SFTP task for msbuild? We'd like to automate our deployments to production, but for security reasons we don't allow SMB file-share access from our dev/test/build environment to production. Right now, developers deploy code by manually uploading the files using FileZilla, over an SFTP connection. This is pre...

How to deploy home-grown applications with rpm?

here is my scenario our team develops on AIX dozens of applications, mostly Perl, shell scripts, batch java, C i would like to simplify deployment/rollback procedures - currently using plain old tarballs with backups I looked into installp vs. rpm for packaging (see my SO question) and decided to go with rpm - better docs, plus IBM inc...

SVN on development server

Hi I'm new to SVN and would like to know a couple of things or if someone can point me in the right direction either advice or some sites to read. I have subversion and tortoise installed and have subversion installed correctly but I would like to know how I can work on files in my htdocs folder from my machine and then commit the files...

ClickOnce Store metadata "AppType" is not valid

Hi All, I have app that uses ClickOnce deployment. It works on about a dozen machines but one. I am getting following error. I found solution from http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps/msg/42d44ffe781d3610, but it requires go to the registry and delete AppType, which is not the best solution, because...

asp.net: deploying local resources - is embedding possible?

I have an asp.net app with some local resources. These resources are used in the aspx and code-behind files: aspx: <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Text="<%$ Resources:testTag %>" /> .vb: TextBox1.Text = GetLocalResourceObject("testTag").ToString If I deploy the .resx files with the app, there are no problems. However, if ...

Why do so many programs have both a setup.exe and a setup.msi?

I have always wondered about this. So many application setups have a zip file that you unzip, and in it are a bunch of files, among other things an exe and an msi. What is the difference? They are often even about the same size. I am never really sure which one to execute, sometimes I do the exe and sometimes the msi, and it usually work...

SSIS: Is there a way to deploy packages to multiple SQL Server 2005 instances

Does anyone have any advice or techniques for deploying SSIS packages to the Integration services database. Basically I maintain a number of SSIS packages that need to get deployed to several environments (dev, test and production), there is a need to change the individual database connections as well. I would like to automate the proc...

How should document be in deployment procedure and environment?

Dear all, My boss required the deployment procedure and project environment document for a web project(.Net) from me and I'm not sure what it include or how it should look like to be. the deployment procedure in my project has the topic like this: Test Permission Test Requirement Merge Persist workflow task Merge MS Project Export En...

Global.asax events are not being raised

After deployment on IIS 6 methods declared in Global.asax (for Application Start, etc.) are not executed. The same code on IIS 5 works properly. What can be the reason? Is it the problem with permissions/configuration? ...

Create x86 and x64 installers using the same vdproj file?

I want to build an x86 msi package as well as an x64 package using the same Visual Studio 2008 deployment project. I see a TargetPlatform in the project properties dialog and I know I can use this to select either x86 or x64 (or Itanium for that matter). The problem is that I cannot seem to associate this property with a project config...

How to deploy Subversion externals?

We're testing the waters with SVN, with Beanstalk as a host. Our setup looks something like this: Repository: Modules Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Repository: Website 1 Custom website code svn:External reference to Module 1 svn:External reference to Module 2 Repository: Website 2 Custom website code svn:External reference to Modu...

Bootstrapping asp.net deployment with .net 3.5SP1

We have a asp.net product that currently runs on .net 2.0 framework. We are using the vs2008 bootstrapper for the deployment. Few months ago I tried to upgrade to .net 3.5SP1 and used the bootstrapper for 3.5SP1. Some of our pilot users complained that it took about 30-45 minutes to download and install the framework. This usually gives...

Deploying websites with git security

I have website that is under version control. To make it easy to deploy it to the server i am thinking about cloning the repo to the server and whenever i want to update the pages just pull changes from the server. From security point of view is this a bad idea to leave .git folder lying around on the webserver ? ...

Configuring Namespace Reservations on Windows XP 64 bit

I need to register HTTP URL namespace to a particular group of users. On MSDN it is explained that I have to use HttpCfg.exe which appears that doesn't exists for Windows XP 64 bit. Does anyone has an idea on how to do this? Regards, Mita Cokic ...

What's the simplest deploy/rollback scheme for a Rails app stored in CVS and destined for a Linux server?

I have a Rails app that is stored in CVS because that is our corporate standard. It needs to be deployed to a single production server that is running Rails using Apache and Phusion Passenger. About the production server: RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.1 The app is used internally at our company, not hosted externally. I have root acce...

Highest level of .Net Framework \ Visual Studio to Run ASP.Net Web apps on Windows 2000 Server?

What is the highest level of .Net Framework and\or version of Visual Studio to develop and run ASP.Net Web applications for the Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 operating system? I want to use the most current technology possible to develop such a visual studio 2008 but unfortunately a client can provide a Win2K server to deploy and run...

How can I avoid pitfalls passing the finished product to the install team?

Anyone out there have any experience with passing off a finished product to the install team? Our product is installable via RPMs but also requires copying some MySQL data, modifying some config files and running a few development written scripts. Having an install team is great, but it is development that is on-call and after each ins...