deployment

How to change database design in a deployed application?

Situation I'm creating a C#/WPF 4 application using a SQL Compact Edition database as a backend with the Entity Framework and deploying with ClickOnce. I'm fairly new to applications using databases, though I don't suspect I'll have much problem designing and building the original database. However, I'm worried that in the future I'll ...

What are the things to absolutely check when deploying an MVC 2 web application?

Hello, I am going to deploy my first MVC web application to the internet. As is the first app with this framework for me, I was wondering if I can collect some advices regarding what should be done to prevent troubles. I am generic on the question and this is xpressely done to collect the most various answers. Thanks! UPDATE: Thank...

Deploying PHP code?

Question on how to go about pushing out our PHP code. Previously, we would simply run our test suite, commit changes, and then svn up on the productions servers to "push" out changes. I'd like to change this because I'm not too comfortable having svn on the production servers for multiple reasons. I was thinking of just writing a script...

Configuration and content management with automated deployment tools for ZF based app

I am trying to automate deployments of a particular project and a bit lost as to who to handle config file as well as user assets. (Application is based on Zend Framework based btw). Main application folder is structured as follows: ./app ./config.ini <----- config file ./modules ./controllers ./models ./view...

Best way to replace file on server

Hello I have to write script in PHP which will be dynamicly replace some files on server from time to time. Easy thing, but the problem is that I want to avoid situation when user request this file during replacing. Then he could get uncompleted file or even error. Best solution to me is block access to my site during replacing by e.g....

Problem Deploying Wicket/JPA (EclipseLink) App to Glassfish

Hi, I have a small Wicket app that I can deploy to Glassfish v3 without any problems. I also have a JAX-RS webservice that includes a jar file that contains JPA entity beans and stateless service beans that deploys successfully. However, when I try to deploy a different Wicket application that makes use of the same entity/service jar,...

How to serve jar files over http with JBoss

Hi, The title is a little bit general so let me give you some background: Our application consists of: A client-side swing executable (core.jar) which downloads modules (jar files) via http The modules which provide the GUI and initiate server interaction (war files) And the server infrastructure (war files) which host modules (jars ...

What are the proper steps to deploy a click once online only c#.net application

I have a .net application that I published as a click-once online only windows application. When I published the app a folder was created on the target machine as expected. After the publish how does the user access the application? Do they execute the .application file inside the "application files" folder? Also what about the config...

Django Deployment Advice

I have a multi-step deployment system setup, where I develop locally, have a staging app with a copy of the production db, and then the production app. I use SVN for version control. When deploying my production app I have been just moving the urls.py and settings.py files up a directory, deleting my django app directory with rm -rf com...

how to manage multiple asp.net applications on one hosting with subdomains ?

Hello, thanks for your time and attention. I want to deploy multiple asp.net applications on same hosting with subdomains. How it should be manged ? I just created a subdomain and deploy application in its folder; when I tried to access application with subdomain it shows the following error: An application error occurred on the ...

Django and Buildout Deployment Problem

I am trying to deploy my existing django project via buildout, following loosely the instructions here. my buildout.cfg file is: [buildout] parts = django python develop = . eggs = myproject [django] recipe = djangorecipe version = 1.2.3 project = myproject projectegg = mypr...

How to deploy servlets to a share Tomcat instance?

I've created a servlet app using Netbeans and it works on my local machine. Now I need to deploy the app to my college class Tomcat 6 instance. The instance is set up like so: /java/tomcat/webapps/<student_id>, where student_id are the 30 student IDs for my class. What exactly do I need to deploy to /java/tomcat/webapps/elvin in order...

Best solutions to deploy from git to production?

My cofounder and I are setting up our server for our startup. We're using git for our source control and the project is django sitting behind nginx via fcgi on Ubuntu. Since we're just getting started, and to make deployments easy on both of us, I have in mind to have a simple deploy script living on the server that will automatically pu...

Ruby on Rails application not regenerating stylesheets on deploy

I have a Ruby on Rails application that is not generating stylesheets properly. Sometimes SASS doesn't compile the SCSS into CSS and sometimes they concatenated CSS are not generated. I basically get an error writing the files, like this: Error Message: Errno::EACCES: Permission denied - /var/www/app/releases/20101004114929/public/style...

Ruby deployment server problem: Missing the Rails 2.3.5 gem.

Hi, I'm trying to install a rails server for my application. I'm using ubuntu 10.04 TLS with apache2 as web server. I made some search on google but I do not found something that help me. When I tried to connect on my application I have following error: The application has exited during startup (i.e. during the evaluation of config/envi...

Tracking deployed application's files

Hi, What do you guys use to deploy and application and track their files in production? I mean tracking if the file was not changed directly in the server? thanks ...

Agnostic automated deployment

What do you use to automatically deploy applications for various kinds of server applications (web, socket, daemon) that uses various technologies (different DBs, languages, etc)? Here we use Python, Java and Ruby, and may use other languages as well in the future. ...

How to deploy via capistrano (webistrano) from two different git repositories (applications) to same server

We have two applications running on production servers, each in its own directory under /usr/local, so let's say there's /usr/local/app1 and /usr/local/app2. Each app has a separate remote git repo. app1 is already being deployed for quite some time via capistrano+webistrano using remote_cache including some recipe changes that were ma...

What are common Application Deployment and Configuration Best Practices with .NET?

Here's my current scenario which is specifically what i'd like to discuss as a case study, however I want this to be open enough to address other deployment practices for .NET projects. I have a .NET WPF Application written to perform manufacturing functional tests. Currently this software is deployed by copying the executable and it's...

visual studio 2010 from 2005?

What happens if I compile and deploy solutions written in vs 2005 using 2010? Must the web server have 3.5 and 4.0 installed? Will my web.configs change? I'm talking mostly about standalone DLLs used in SharePoint and Web application solutions that use .net 2.0. Can I have vs2010 and vs2005 on the same development client? Is there...