Deploy ASP.NET app to remote server
asp.net, deployment, svn
Solution
I use psexec from sysinternals (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx) to remotely call svn commands in my hook script. Basically, whenever anyone checks something in to the production branch, it calls svn update on the remote server and the updates get pulled into production.
This may or may not work depending on what ports are open between the two servers.
Problem
I am looking for a solution to deploy ASP.NET application from SVN in one server to other remote web server. FTP is not allowed. Other tasks than file copy should be done - e.g. create virtual directory. Which tools would you use? Remote server could have MSBuild or NAnt installed but how to securely copy files from SVN server to web server? Maybe SSH? Are there any alternatives? Is it possible to have an atomic operation on file copy? I do not think that Continuous Integration servers would help me. Both SVN and web servers are built using Windows 2k3, IIS 6.0, .NET 2.0. Edit deployment should be automatic using SVN post commit hook.