Consider the following example structure - Project - www - files + documents + html + images + scripts - WEB-INF * web.xml The documents folder needs to be a symlink or in some other way external from the war file because users will add and remove documents (throu...
I've used ClickOnce a lot over the years but have run up against a lot of it's limitations. What alternatives are there for web deployment? So far the only one I've been able to turn up is ClickThrough, which is part of WiX now on the back burner. Are there any others out there that people have had success with? ...
I have been evaluating the wide range of installation and web deployment solutions available for Windows applications. I will just clarify here (without too much detail, these tools have been covered in other questions) my understanding of the options: NSIS - Free tool that generates setup executables. Small binary. Specialized, som...
I have well developed an ASP.NET website with SQL Server 2000. How can I drop it on a server? ...
We have several images and PDF documents that are available via our website. These images and documents are stored in source control and are copied content on deployment. We are considering creating a separate image server to put our stock images and PDF docs on - thus significantly decreasing the bulk of our deployment package. Does an...
I have 2 related questions: What is the best way to managing deployment of web projects between environments? I just downloaded the .NET Web Deployment Project and it seems to handle things like replacing certain sections of the web.config to match the environment, which is great. The other thing that I wanted to automate was the encr...
Hi, I've a asp.net web solution which references a web service from another web site (also in our development environment). I want to know if I need to change the address of the web service (from production server) when deploying to production and how or if it is not necessary to make any changes? ...
I work on a small scale application (about 5000 users), but we do maintain some important user preference data. Whenever we release an upgrade we check if there are users online (we do it after hours and usually there are none) and then just put an outage page and apply the new build (both UI and DB changes). It all takes about half and ...
Hi, does anyone know a way to configure a maven goal to deploy to a tomcat server after a build is run? I know that this is possible using the maven-tomcat-plugin but it looks as though as this only works for Maven 2 whereas I'm using Maven 1.1 I'm currently trying to set up Hudson so this would be part of my continuous intergration ph...
We need to increase our knowledge on deployment of ASP.NET Web sites/Web App. We are getting increasingly bigger and more traffic and need a more professional approach. Not too mention, we are also moving up to multiple database/multiple back end/ multiple front end server deployments and we just don't want to screw it up. What type of ...
I want to update an ASP .NET web application (including web.config file changes and database scripts) to multiple production environments - ideally with the click of a button. I do not have direct network connectivity to any of them. I think this means the application servers will have to "pull" the information required for updating the ...
Hello everyone, Im still learning the basics of subversion but since the beginning i had a goal to achieve with this cvs: automating the site deployment process. Is there any solution to automate the process of site updates to the webserver? Thanks! ...
For a number of web-applications I need something like Capistrano to automate deployment. I know Capistrano can be used to deploy non-ruby applications but I'm not familiar with Ruby, so I expect writing deployment configurations can be a bit of a pain. So I was wondering, are there any alternatives to Capistrano written in either Perl ...
I am a lone developer. We have a couple of websites hosted on a web host. The svn repository is also on the web host. In house, we have a development machine, which is a close-enough replication of the live environment. For the live website, I have an export from subversion, appropriately named with the version number. The live website'...
You know, the next "big" and "enterprisey" thing from Microsoft. Is it just me, or is it really hardly for humans? Main highlights are (IMO): Absolutely cryptic syntax (-skip:objectName=filePath,absolutePath=App_Offline.* just for skipping App_Offline.html) Manifest as an after thought Lack of thorough documentation Not a word about...
Hi I am creating a signup application with validation and Captcha (using SimpleCaptcha). I am able to deploy my application on localhost and everything works perfectly inclusive of the captcha. But when deployed the war file to a test server, my captcha is not working, and here's an output from the log file: org.apache.catalina.core.S...
I am using VS 2008 Team Suite and SQL Server 2008 in my development environment. I am deploying to a shared-host website with shared-host SQL Server 2005. I want to push changes from my development environment to my production host. I tried using Data | Schema Compare... and it reports to me that it does not support SQL Server 2008. W...
Joel mentioned in StackOverflow podcast #24 that it's FogCreek company policy to not ship software on Fridays. However, he didn't elaborate as to why. I agree. At my employer, we deploy on Thursday nights. So we have Friday to cleanup any bugs that missed Quality Assurance (QA). However, my manager suggested that we deploy on Frid...
Hi guys I need to implement a web site installer for my asp.net application. The installer will be handling following features - Deploy the .net web application on to the IIS server Setting up the Sql database connection to run the DB scripts. Execute all the DB scripts. Run another exe for the license management. If some thing goes ...
Hi, i was only able to read up that ASP.NET detects changes to specific files like aspx files, DLLs and others. It will restart itself, finish current running requests and new requests with the new deployed files. But what is happening in the time from the first file beeing copied till the last one has been exchanged? If i exchange the...