Auto-update web application

Question

I'm in a very bad situation: I need to maintain asp.net web application hosted in an environment on which I don't have any access. For every small intervention I need to go personally which includes checking procedures since it'as a government agency.

I was wondering if there is some way to partially of full update an asp.net web application from the application himself of from some other web-based tool.

I don't have neither remote desktop, vpn and all this should be done through http.

Thanks...

Answer 1

I don't think it is a good idea to give your app the privileges to write on the disk. A better solution would be to have a back end process (service) running on the same machine which would check some server of yours if there is a new version available and deploy it on a apropriate occasion. But of course this proces must have privileges to write to disk and access the internet (or external network). As it is a goverment agency I don't think they will be keen on such a solution.