deployment

mod_deflate vs Django GZipMiddleware, which one to use for deployment?

We're deploying Django apps with Apache 2.2 + mod_wsgi. Should we enable mod_deflate in Apache or use Django's GZipMiddleware? Which option performs better? ...

Can't deploy GoogleAppEngine project!

Can't deploy anymore from eclipse plugin with the following error: Unable to upload: java.net.SocketException: Software caused connection abort: recv failed ... Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Software caused connection abort: recv failed I have absolutely no clue what this is about - it always worked before. Nothing changed in t...

(Rails) Protecting code and licensing for independently deployed Rails applications...?

Hi All, I'm writing a Rails application which will have reasonably regular updates -- nothing abnormal here. I face a problem, however, due to the distribution model. Basically the application will be sold for stand-alone "intranet" installation due to its "add-on" nature (it's basically a web interface for an existing, database-drive...

Problems consuming webservice on ASP.NET on production(IIS) server

We've implemented some SOAP client code on our ASP.NET site that calls up a remote service. Implementation was basically done by using Visual Studio "Add Web Reference" wizard, adding proper 'using remote.service.namespace' to the code and calling the service. Code works perfect locally(from Visual Studio), but fails on production web s...

What is the current standard way to deploy a Rails app?

Up until now I've been deploying Rails apps to our Apache/Passenger setup using a simple Rake task that I wrote. I haven't tried to mess around with Capistrano or Vlad the Deployer. However, now more developers are coming on board, and I'm interesting in arranging things so that the deployment process runs the tests first and won't depl...

What is the best practice in deploying application on Windows?

Hello, I have an application that consists of several .dlls, .libs, .pyd (python library), .exe, .class-es. What is the best practice in the deployment process? I plan to put .dlls - managed into GAC and unmanaged into WinSxS folder. What should I do with .libs, .exe, .class and .pyd? Is it ok to put it to /ProgramFiles/Applicatio...

Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application to an Intranet

Hello: I have an ASP.NET web application that I just completed. I am now preparing to deploy the application to my company's intranet. I wanted to prepare the files so that I can simply give them to my company's IT group for uploading. I reviewed some of the previous Q&As posted on this website; however, there doesn't appear to be a ...

Do I need one MSI for each OS?

I have a client who is requesting that we give them an MSI file instead of our normal EXE file for installation of our software. The client has users on multiple Windows operating systems (2K, XP, Vista). As stated in the title of the question, do I need to create a MSI specific to each OS or are MSIs generic enough to work on all of the...

Change Add/Remove Program name for ClickOnce app?

I have a ClickOnce application that has the Publisher, Suite and Program names set properly through the Publish Options dialog. For example: Publisher = Microsoft, Suite = Office, Program = Word. I want the entry in Add/Remove Program to be more than the Program name. I'd like it to contain a prefix so all programs from my suite or publ...

Maintaining JNDI across multiple instances of Tomcat

I am wondering how people manage maintaining JNDI resources across multiple instances of their Tomcat Application server. Lets take, for example, my database JNDI resource. It is declared within my /conf/context.xml file and references from my apps web.xml file. That JNDI resource has to be independently defined on my development box, s...

capistrano/deprec using :user instead of :svn_username to log into svn

Hey all, I'm using deprec with password-protected svn. I need to use a different login/pass for svn than for logging into the server. The deprec way to do that is :svn_username, as far as I can tell, but it doesn't seem to be working. deprec (2.0.13), capistrano (2.5.8). Snip of deploy.rb / bash: http://pastie.org/pastes/545876 Than...

What are best practices for ASP.NET application deployment

Not being into ASP.NET world too much, I still faced a neccessity to work on ASP.NET project that requires periodic deployment of new version to production IIS server. What are generally accepted best practices for ASP.NET application deployment? Environment: Windows Server 2003, IIS6, MySQL5, ASP.NET 2.0 application. ...

Deployment and automating update

Hi I have WCF client server application, and create msi setup projects for both projects. Server is a windows service that hosts WCF service, client is a WPF application. Now I have a requirement to automate client update mechanism. That is on client's open it should check is there updates in the server, if yes downloads and install and ...

.htaccess while upgrading web app

I am writing one web application using PHP/CodeIginter. Now, I want to add a .htaccess while I am upgrading the application in the server. The purpose of this .htaccess will be: - It'll allow normal operation if the user is accessing from some specific IPs, and Using a particular host name alias has a query string parameter "upgradi...

Which technology stack would result in easiest deployment for a customer-hosted web app?

For a web-app product which would need to be installed by the customer on their own servers (think FogBugz or the self-hosted Wordpress package), which technology stack would result in a smoother/easier installation? Our target platforms are known: Windows/IIS/SQLSever and Linux/Apache/MySQL. But the technology stack to be used is bein...

Deploying multiple versions of same EJBs and classes to same JBoss server

I have a few separate application projects (EARs) with multiple EJBs that I want to deploy to the same JBoss server. Now, some of the projects may have the same EJBs, but different versions. In similar circumstances, some projects may use different versions of the same "ordinary" classes (i.e. classes loaded within VM, without JNDI looku...

SQL Server conection not working, Please help!

hi, I'm not very good at deployment and I'm facing a problem: First Off, I'm using Vista. i have created a windows application in vb.net which has a database file named Customerdb.mdf in it. I have selected the database and in the property, I have selected Embedded Resource option. I have used the following connection: Dim con...

Freezing Rails+Redcloth = Problems?

I've just frozen my Rails (2.3.2) application together with RedCloth (4.2.2) and deployed it to my shared hosting environment. When running the application I get an error saying another version of RedCloth is already activated (4.2.2) when trying to load an older version. I reckon this problem is because the hosting environment has an ...

How do you deploy your ASP.NET applications to live servers?

I am looking for different techniques/tools you use to deploy an ASP.NET web application project (NOT ASP.NET web site) to production? I am particularly interested of the workflow happening between the time your Continuous Integration Build server drops the binaries at some location and the time the first user request hits these binari...

How do I copy from numerous release directories to a single folder

Okay this is and isn't programming related I guess... I've got a whole bunch of little useful console utilities scattered across a suite of projects that I wrote and I want to dump them all to a single directory to make using them simpler. The only issue is that I have them all compiled in both Debug and Release mode. Given that I onl...