Does Microsoft force an update down to all of its users of windows-update? Is it for legal reasons? EDIT(aku): Question was reformulated. if you want to know which version of Windows comes with .NET see this topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71390/which-operating-systems-come-with-net ...
What is the "best" tool for creating deployment packages/jobs/stuff for all "enterprise level" deployments..... GAC, COM+, Credentials, App pools, Web sites, registry entries, etc... It would be best if there is a way to "tokenize" the credentials and registry entries so that we can enter the appropriate credentials for the "next" enviro...
Hi, I want to deploy my web application (asp.net mvc), and I need to remove all the codebehind files from my project. Any scripts that you guys know of to do this? I prefer using a script since I can tweak it if need be. ...
I have a cluster of three mongrels running under nginx, and I deploy the app using Capistrano 2.4.3. When I "cap deploy" when there is a running system, the behavior is: The app is deployed. The code is successfully updated. In the cap deploy output, there is this: executing "sudo -p 'sudo password: ' mongrel_rails cluster::restar...
At work we have 4 people working together on a few different projects. For each project we each have a local copy we work on and then there is a development, staging, and live deployment, along with any branches we have (we use subversion). Our database is MySQL. So my question is, what is a good way to manage which revisions to the dat...
Our company uses Citrix to remote into a terminal server for remote users to launch smart client apps within a virtual window on their machine. The problem is that smartclient apps are being downloaded each time the user launches them eventhough the version on the remote citrix server has not change. This is due to the user's profile b...
Since I'm not a huge fan of any of the current solutions for managing the resources and knowledge that I have, I was thinking about making my own solution, which will involve custom code as well as possible integration of FOSS solutions. I would start development on my local machine, but if I like it, how difficult would it be to migrate...
Hi, I'm using subversion (TortoiseSVN) and I want to remove the .svn folders from my project for deployment, is there an automated way of doing this using subversion or do I have to create a custom script for this? ...
I am a member of a team that is about to launch a beta of a python (Django specifically) based web site and accompanying suite of backend tools. The team itself has doubled in size from 2 to 4 over the past few weeks and we expect continued growth for the next couple of months at least. One issue that has started to plague us is gettin...
in web.xml i set my welcome file to a jsp within web.xml <welcome-file>WEB-INF/index.jsp</welcome-file> inside index.jsp i then forward on to a servlet <% response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL("myServlet/")); %> however the application tries to find the servlet at the following path applicationName/WEB-INF/myServlet ...
Can you package up the .Net framework in an installer created in Visual Studio? If so how? I've seen this done with Install4J packaging a JVM but I think that was the JVM to run Install4J. ...
I have started on a personal python application that runs on the desktop. I am using wxPython as a GUI toolkit. Should there be a demand for this type of application, I would possibly like to commercialize it. I have no knowledge of deploying "real-life" Python applications, though I have used py2exe in the past with varied success. How...
This is a very simple question with a simple answer, but it is not quite so simple to find the answer on the internet. I have a simple Setup (deployment) project in Visual Studio 2008, and I have the EULA text. What do I need to do in the project to get the EULA into the install wizard? ...
I have a Python web application consisting of several Python packages. What is the best way of building and deploying this to the servers? Currently I'm deploying the packages with Capistrano, installing the packages into a virtualenv with bash, and configuring the servers with puppet, but I would like to go for a more Python based solu...
I wonder what's the best deployment directory for Rails apps? Some developers use directories such as /u/apps/#{appname}. Are there any advantages when using /u/apps/#{appname} instead of /var/www/#{appname} or other OS default directories? Obviously I want to pick the directory with the best security properties and the least friction f...
Is there a way to configure a Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Project to install an application into a named Application Pool rather than the default app pool for a given web site? ...
I am looking for instructions on how to setup a PEAR channel for our project so that we can deploy it with the pear installer. I have Googled for a while and cannot find any straightforward information. I followed this tutorial for a while, but I am having a hell of a time getting this to work. Does anyone know how to do this? Is there a...
There's another post on SO relating to .NET -- not us. Pure PHP. Trying to find the best way/process to deploy stable version of our PHP app. I've seen an article on Capistrano, but am curious what else is out there. Aside from the obvious reasons, I'm also looking to add some scripting so that the SVN rev number gets added in there ...
How do most people handle updating ASP.NET applications running in a webfarm? I am having the problem that because the app is in use and the request affitnity is not sticky, when we push the update users run into errors as the process requests the request might be handled by the wrong version of the application. How do you do this? Take...
Hi, I'm a Drupal newbie. Is it possible to set up everything and deploy Drupal on the server? I mean things like putting in the content, setting up the modules, etc..., then you put it all up to the production server? Thanks in advance! ...