Not necessarily common, but one way just popped into my head: Store your application in a new directory every time you publish a new version, and then change the IIS entry to have that web app point to the new directory.
The process would become: 1. Build the new version 2. Zip the new version 3. Create a new folder on the server 4. FTP the new version to the new folder 5. Unzip the new version 6. Repoint all the virtual directories 7. Archive the old version There are nantcontrib tasks to muck about with the IIS metabase, so all of this could be automated. http://nantcontrib.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/adsigetprop.html http://nantcontrib.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/adsisetprop.html Just a thought. Thanks, Ryan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Clemmons Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 9:21 AM To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nant-users] deploying asp.net applications Greetings! I am using Nant to build, zip, and FTP my asp.net application to a remote site where I then have to manually (oh the horror!) archive the old version and unzip the new package into the existing virtual directories. Now I wish to automate these last steps so that deployment is fully automated. I know that I could simply FTP over the existing application, but I hate to have obsolete files hanging around. I also am thinking about writing a file-watching service to do this final step (I have access to the server), but I would rather do it all with Nant if possible. Is there a common way of doing this with Nant? Thanks, Scott ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list Nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list Nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
